Shannon delights in the nuanced intonations of the human voice, and she has a special appreciation for poetry. We hear her interview with Alice Walker, who talks about responding to anger and Buddhist teachings on “taking the arrow out of the heart.”
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“I beat myself up constantly, but only I can see the bruises.” Angelo Bautista looks back on their essay on feeling shame and why the seemingly trivial business of skincare touches on profound questions about personal identity and love.
Flourishing is a skill, and with a few basic mindfulness practices, we can feel better. Now, neuroscientist Richie Davidson wants to scale up human flourishing to boost the well-being of entire cities.
Dalal Abu Amneh is a Palestinian singer and neuroscientist. She says music has the capacity to heal and engage the entire brain, and the power to bring people together in the midst of political conflicts.
Talking with a therapist is a proven path to wholeness, but psychotherapy can often drag on too long. Diana Fosha explains why Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy can have quick results for treating trauma.
Scientists know what life does, but what life is… that’s a mystery, says astrobiologist Marcelo Gleiser. And geologist Bob Hazen believes we need a radically new understanding of how life evolved, which begins not with cells but with rocks.
Melanie Challenger is a naturalist who spends a lot of time in wild places. She’s intimately familiar with birth and death, and she believes any understanding of what it means to be human must start by tuning into our animal nature.
Not long ago, we thought decoding the human genome would reveal the secrets of life. That proved to be a fantasy. Now scientists are learning how to grow life outside the body — and as science writer Phil Ball discovered, even create mini-brains in a vat.
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