We all love the feeling of getting lost in a good story and seeing the world through a character’s eyes. Recently, psychologists have been studying whether that experience actually changes readers. Novelist and cognitive psychologist Keith Oatley tells us about the latest research connecting fiction with empathy.
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Steven Poole tells Anne Strainchamps that video games can be an art form and that they will continue to increase in sophistication.
Thebe Medupe is an astrophysicist who grew up under apartheid. He talks about the stories he grew up hearing from his village elders and the astronomical legends of the Dogun people in Mali.
Exploding urbanism might be the biggest global innovation challenge, Chris Anderson says.
Our inaugural edition of "Watch This!" comes on the heels of the Academy Awards, with a nominee and the winner of the full-length documentary award.
Senator Russ Feingold is a Democrat from Wisconsin who sits on the Senate Intelligence Committee.
Olivia Laing talks about her book, "The Trip to Echo Spring: On Writers and Drinking."
One of the most interesting stories of 2015 was the idea that is a formula for love—or, more specifically, a series of questions that might fascilitate falling in love. We spoke the author of this study, Arthur Aron, as well as Mandy Len Catron, a woman who used the questions on her partner.
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