Jazz bassist and singer Esperanza Spalding talks about the inspiration behind her latest album, 'Emily’s D+Evolution.'More
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Even as you read this very sentence, you may be an unwitting victim of the attention merchants — those sneaky and subversive salespeople who attract your attention and then resell it for a profit.More
Miles Hyman is Shirley Jackson's grandson. He's an artist who specializes in graphic novels and adaptations of classic literature. His latest book has a lot of personal meaning for him.
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Neuroanthropologist John S. Allen argues that the ‘home’ represents one of the most important inventions in our evolution, without which human civilization would not be possible.More
Groundhog Day co-writer Danny Rubin talks about writing the story and the film's enduring impact.More
Maybe time has its origins in grief and longing for people we've lost. That idea certainly resonates with theoretical physicist Ron Mallett. He's spent a lot of his career studying time — which he traces back to the tragedy that marked his childhood.More
Chances are if you were picked on as a child, you probably haven't patched things up with your bully and become friends. But fourth-...More
Julian Barnes discusses composer Dmitri Shostakovich and his bully - Joseph Stalin.More
If you've ever been bullied, you've probably had revenge fantasies. But you probably haven't taken it to the extreme that Allen Kurzweil...More
"Disgustologist" Valerie Curtis talks about a powerful driver of human emotion.More
Journalist Christa Weil has a taste for food that's on the challenging side.More
What's the new trend in sustainable, eco-friendly food? Bugs! Entomologist Arnold van Huis explains.More
