Theoretical physicist Michio Kaku tells Steve Paulson about the theory that our universe is the echo from the Big Bang of some other universe.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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What’s happening in our brains when we talk or sing or play music? Are language and music different neural processes? Neuroscientist Charles Limb peaks into the mind of a particular kind of musician... rappers.
If your mind is nothing more than brain chemistry, do you have free will? Neuroscientist Michael Gazzaniga says new brain science should change our thinking about this old philosophical question.
You can also listen to the EXTENDED interview, and read the extended transcript.
Perhaps one of the most obvious and important cultural divides in the United States is between the political right and left.
Social psychologist Jonathan Haidt talks with Steve Paulson about his research into the fundamental differences between Democrats and Republican, and how we might begin to speak across the gap.
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.
The documentary film "The Brooklyn Connection" shows how a Brooklyn immigrant raised over 30 million dollars to arm and supply the Kosovo Liberation Army.
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"
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