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Your Body or Your Mind

Mind/body
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Remember debating the mind-body duality in college? You probably argued the meaning of Descartes’ adage “I think, therefore I am” in your dorm. Maybe you even delved into the idea of what is consciousness. But for Lauren Slater, author of “Prozac Diary,” the mind-body argument isn’t just a debate or an intellectual pursuit.

From Stage Tricks to Real Magic: A Magician's Search for Wonder

Person doing magic
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Nate Staniforth spent thousands of hours learning the craft of stage magic. But he was really looking for wonder. And he says real magic is not smoke machines or stage tricks; it's creating a moment of genuine astonishment.

Length: 
11:03
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Imagining Climate Change

Airdates: 
February 10, 2018
November 24, 2018

“The climate crisis is a crisis of culture and thus of imagination,” says writer Amitav Ghosh. So what changes in our conversation about global warming when we tap into the imaginative worlds of novelists and artists?More

Who's watching?

Who's Watching Us?

Airdates: 
January 13, 2018
September 22, 2018

Ever had the nagging suspicion that you’re being watched? You are. We all are.More

Abstaining from alchohol in January?

Renunciation

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January 04, 2018

Ah, January. Season of diets and fasts and cleanses, of "Drynuary" and "Veganuary." Why does being virtuous always seem to mean giving up pleasure?More

A Ritual For A New Year

Choose something from 2017 and leave it behind.
Dangerous Ideas

Anne shares a yearly ritual for leaving behind something you regret, and moving into the new year a little bit lighter. 

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1:11

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