The common wisdom is that we’re getting more violent all the time. Witness the genocides and world wars of the last century. But cognitive psychologist Steven Pinker says we have it all wrong. And in his 800 page book “The Better Angels of Ourselves” he makes the case for how violence has declined.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Susannah Cahalan talks about her book, "Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness."
John Flansburgh and John Linnell comprise the musical duo “They Might Be Giants.” They talk with Steve Paulson about their music, and their obsession for old pop songs.
For our 2008 hour on plagiarism and intellectual propriety, we remixed our interview on sampling and remixes with DJ Spooky.
Computer paswords are on on our minds this week. "The New York Times" reporter Ian Urbina talks about his feature story, "The Secret Life of Passwords."
There’s another place where food and death go together, but it’s a place we don’t like to talk about: the last meal. Brian Price has prepared the last meals for some 200 inmates on Death Row in Texas prisons.
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