What do the three Abrahamic religions have in common about the concept of heaven?
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Paul Campos is the author of “The Obesity Myth: Why America’s Obsession with Weight Is Hazardous to Your Health.”
Poet Molly Peacock's biography of the 18th century paper artist, Mary Delaney.
Nancy Drew just turned 75 and still wields immense influence on the women who grew up reading her.
Luke Rhinehart's novel, “The Dice Man", involves a psychiatrist who opens his life to new possibilities by basing his actions on a throw of the diced.
The evidence is mounting... "we" are mostly who we think we are. Our identities are mental constructs, cobbled together from memory and stories. Jonathan Adler gives us a crash course in narrative identity and mental health.
Ed Boyden, a researcher at MIT, is at the forefront of a new science that aims to map and even heal the brain with light. It’s called optogenetics, and the journal Science has called it one of the great insights of the 21st century. It’s in its early days, but the goal is to one day be able to take a disease like depression, PTSD, or epilepsy and, using bursts of light, just turn it off -- the same way you’d fix a software glitch in a computer.
Singer and pianist Marcia Ball talks about the various kinds of Blues and how they differ from what she usually plays.
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