TTBOOK host Jim Fleming reflects on The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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French chemist Pierre Laszlo tells Steve Paulson that our bodies need salt to prevent dehydration and that removing the salt from seawater isn’t that hard, but it’s very expensive.
Can you fall in love with anyone? More than 20 years ago, psychologist Arthur Aron made two strangers fall in love in his laboratory. How? He asked them 36 questions. This year, Mandy Len Catron tried out the 36 questions with a guy she barely knew. Now they’re in love.
Imagine living an entire year without money. And I mean no money. No cash. No credit cards. Nothing. Where do you live? What do you eat? How do you wash? What do you do?
Mira Nair is an Oscar nominated, India- born film-maker who divides her time between America and the sub-continent.
Should the Star Spangled Banner really be our national anthem? John Hasse gives a short history of patriotic songs, and suggests alternatives for the national anthem.
Researchers opened the chimpanzee genome in 2005, raising a number of fascinating questions. Chief among them: if we share most of our DNA with chimpanzees, what is it that makes us different?
So maybe you're not going to be the next Richard Pryor.
Even if you don't get many more laughs, you can laugh more. Katie West tells us how.
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