Earlier this year, the 14th Dalai Lama of Tibet handed over the last of his political power, to a secular, Harvard-educated politician. Lobsang Sangay left his fellowship and family in the United States to take up his new post, and all of its challenges.
Rachel Naomi Remen is a doctor and the co-founder of the Commonweal Cancer Help Program. She talks with Steve Paulson about the transformative effects of cancer.
Theoretical physicist Michio Kaku tells Steve Paulson about the theory that our universe is the echo from the Big Bang of some other universe.
Richard Nisbett argues that parenting styles have an enormous impact on the IQ of children and so does simply telling middle-school children that influencing their IQ is within their control.
Sometimes making music new is as simple as adding a few new elements. For ground-breaking jazz composer Maria Schneider, that meant adding words (and a few bird calls) to her work.
Justin O. Schmidt has been stung by nearly every insect with a stinger, from the benign honeybee to the viscious tarantula hawk wasp. He is a research biologist and professor at the University of Arizona school of Entomology and he told Steve Paulson about his creation, the Schmidt Sting Pain Index.
Steven Pollock, a legendary figure in the psychedelic underground, was murdered in 1981. Journalist Hamilton Morris investigates this unsolved murder and uncovers the largely forgotten story of Pollock, a brilliant - if renegade - scientist.
Here's Morris' article from Harpers, "Blood Spore"
One year ago 20 children and six school staff members were fatally shot in Newtown, Connecticut. In our hour on the wisdom of children this week, Muadh Bhavnagarwala and Jason Graves share their story of taking part in the memorial that followed the shootings. Listen in.
