Svetlana Boym tells Anne Strainchamps that nostalgia was invented in the 17th century and seen as an actual physical condition for the next century of so.
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Noted nature writer Terry Tempest Williams knows that the woods can be frightening, if you go walking in them with the wrong person. She tells the story of how she narrowly escaped a brutal attack while hiking.
By now, it's almost commonplace to worry that the amount of time you spend on the Internet is actually rewiring your brain. But the first person to really put the issue on the cultural map was the writer Nicholas Carr -- in a book that's become a contemporary classic: "The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains."
Sarah Stewart Taylor is a Vermont mystery writer who's fascinated by cemeteries. She walks through the Sawnee Bean Cemetery near Thetford, Vermont with Steve Paulson.
Sounds from the Dane County Farmer’s Market, right here in Madison, Wisconsin. Our farmer’s market is the largest in the country.
Why are millions of British TV viewers obsessed with the Danish TV show The Killing? And will Americans ever get to see the original? We catch up with the show's creator, Danish writer/director Soren Sveistrup.
Roger Ebert won the Pulitzer Prize in 1975 and is probably the most famous movie critic in America. He talks with Steve Paulson about the movie genre known as film noir.
We hear from Artificial Intelligence pioneer Marvin Minsky, physicist Roger Penrose, philosopher Daniel Dennett, New Age guru Deepak Chopra, and many more.
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