In 2010 Anne Rice announced on her Facebook page, "Today I quit being a Christian." The announcement sparked headlines around the world. She talks about her complicated history with Catholicism and why she no longer wants to be part of any church.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Set in the aftermath of Iran’s fraudulent elections of 2009, Zahra’s Paradise is the fictional story of the search for Mehdi, a young protestor who has vanished into an extrajudicial twilight zone.
One fifth of all new relationships today begin online. That’s a lot of people trusting their hearts to the algorithms of digital matchmakers.
Andy Ross and Sean Weitner put up on the Internet (at the Flak Magazine website) their audio commentary on David Lynch’s film “Mulholland Drive.” They talk about it with Jim Fleming, and we hear clips of the film and the commentary.
What makes a happy workplace? It's pretty clear that most of us want more than just a paycheck. We walso want to do something we care about. The quest to build a corporate culture around meaningful work is what led Chip Conley to the pioneering psychologist Abraham Maslow and his "hierarchy of needs." At the bottom of Maslow's pyramid are baisc survival needs like food and shelter. And at the top is "self-actualization," where people reach their full potential. So what would a self-actualizing company look like?
Adharanand Finn had always been a runner. But when he started to train seriously after his child was born, he thought, why not go to Kenya, to run seriously and to try to unlock the secrets of speed.
Alice Dreger tells Jim Fleming that conjoined twins usually see themselves as individuals, but view being joined as a positive thing.
Andre Brink is a white South African novelist whose anti-apartheid books inspired Nelson Mandela and became a lightning rod for criticism from the ruling regime.
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