Malcolm Gladwell is a staff writer for The New Yorker and author of “The Tipping Point.” He talks about how successful marketing works and gives some examples.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Is there a science of rap? Pioneering neuroscientist Charles Limb has put freestyle rappers inside brain-scanning machines, and he's seen an explosion of neural activity.
Novelist Louis de Bernieres tells Jim Fleming about the climate of religious toleration that marked the Ottoman Empire.
Writer Mike Magnuson used to like being a lummox. Then he took up bicycling, and changed his life.
David Rothenberg has played music with birds and even whales. But his latest music project is much less, well, melodious…
. . . like playing music with insects. He’s recorded songs with a lot of them -- crickets and cicadas and yes, even mosquitoes.
Producer Craig Eley sat down with David Rothenberg to talk “bug music.”
Marjane Satrapi talks about the intimate lives of women in Iran and the conflicts created around the issue of sexuality by patriarchy and fundamentalist Islam.
Many traditions from Confucianism to Judaism emerged as responses to the rampant violence of their time. Karen Armstrong says our own time has a lot in common with that age.
Goshen college theologian Jo Ann Brant talks about interpreting the story of Lot’s wife, who gets turned into a pillar of salt.
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