A short story by science fiction writer John Scalzi, read by Adam Hirsch.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Steven Kotler spurned religion until he came down with Lyme Disease and spent three years on the couch. Then a friend took him surfing and he began to get better. Surfing became his religion.
Chicago historian Tim Samuelson tells Jim Fleming about the time the City of Chicago decided to reverse the flow of the Chicago river and send its waste south along the Mississippi.
Rosanne Cash is the daughter of country music legend Johnny Cash, but she's forged her own very successful career in music.
Jennifer Jacquet explains how public shaming can be used to promote political change and social reform.
Susan Morrison responds to Hilary Clinton as a cultural symbol and public personality.
Few Latin American novelists are as beloved across the globe as Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Here’s Steve Paulson’s 2006 interview with translator Edith Grossman, who’s done more than anyone to bring Garcia Marquez to the English reading world.
For centuries religions set moral boundaries. In his new book “The Moral Landscape” prominent atheist Sam Harris argues that science should set them.
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