A few brief dramatized snippets from Olivia Judson and her book “Dr. Tatiana’s Sex Advice to All Creation.”
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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So, what is gender anyhow? Philosopher Judith Butler has been unpacking our notions of "he," "she" and "we" for the past 20 years. She stopped in to help us take stock of the state of gender in the North America.
Jeff Wiltse tells Anne Strainchamps how municipal pools have reflected the social tensions of American society, especially the racial tensions.
Canadian novelist Margaret Atwood talks with Steve Paulson about her dystopian science fiction book, “Oryx and Crake.”
When you think about something as specific as the Paleo Diet you kinda gotta ask yourself how someone today really knows what someone ate, say, 15,000 years ago. So we thought, why not ask an expert? Say an anthropologist who is an expert on the subject?
Psychologist Robert Karen, author of “The Forgiving Self: The Road from Resentment to Connection,” tells Jim Fleming that forcing kids to apologize when they’re not really sorry is a bad idea.
Kathleen Morris talks about her experience with the mental habit monastics used to describe a kind of frantic escapism and aversion to other people. It's similar, but not identical, to the modern disease of depression.
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