Kevin Dutton talks about his book, "The Wisdom of Psychopaths: What Saints, Spies, and Serial Killers Can Teach Us About Success."
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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One Laptop Per Child seeks to change the world by giving laptops to kids in places too remote to have electricity.
Mary Lefkowitz is the author of “Greek Gods, Human Lives: What We Can Learn from Myths.” She says that the Greek gods seem too much like us to impress most modern people.
Princeton historian Robert Darnton says that people in 18th century Paris spread the news by making up topical songs to familiar melodies, and that the police kept records on everybody.
Joe Nick Patoski has been writing about his friend Willie Nelson for thirty five years. He talks about Nelson's first claim to fame in Nashville was as a songwriter.
Reihan Salam critiqued the movie "Gandhi" for Slate Magazine in an article called "Meet the Hindustani Malcolm X."
Michael Chabon defends the position that genre fiction is just as worthy of respect as any other fiction.
Marco Iacoboni talks about mirror neurons - neurons hard-wired into us and explain how we feel empathy and compassion and why we feel the need to connect with one another.
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