Betsy Israel tells Jim Fleming our society has always been suspicious of unmarried women and talks about examples from Louisa Mat Alcott to Ally McBeal.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Carl Honore speaks about the cultural revolution that is the "philosophy of slow."
NPR's Eric Nuzum reveals his lifelong fear of ghosts in a haunting new memoir, “Giving Up The Ghost” – the story of his troubled teenage years, suicidal fantasies and conviction that he was being stalked by the ghost of a little girl. In this EXTENDED interview, he talks with Anne Strainchamps about depression, friendship, and what it means to be haunted.
"Independent People" by Halldór Laxness reviewed by author David Mitchell ("Cloud Atlas")
Not all cavemen are in the past. The Modern Caveman Movement involves men in urban gyms, grunting and sprinting on all fours, lifting heavy stones, and running barefoot.
Charles Monroe-Kane reports on Brian Dunn, who “finds” other people’s photographs and then keeps them. Some of the found photos are on our Web site.
Social networking takes a dark turn in this story by J.M. Perkins.
Contemplating the multiverse is mind-blowing, but if you want a truly earth-shattering controversy in physics, you have to go back 500 years to Copernicus' radical theory. Dava Sobel tells his story.
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