If your mind is nothing more than brain chemistry, do you have free will? In this EXTENDED interview, cognitive neuroscientist Michael Gazzaniga says new brain science should change our thinking about this old philosophical question.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Animal behaviorist Patricia McConnell tells Jim Fleming that dog-owners should be pack leaders but in the leadership style of Ghandi.
Julian Barnes' novel "The Sense of an Ending" won the 2011 Man Booker Prize. Barnes talks with Steve Paulson about the complications of memory, aging and moral reckoning.
Lewis Hyde invokes the cultural commons – that vast store of art and ideas from the past that enrich everybody's present.
No book has won more raves this year than Katherine Boo’s nonfiction portrait of a Mumbai slum, "Behind the Beautiful Forevers".
Maggie Nelson recommends "Close to the Knives" by David Wojnarowicz.
Rob Walker talks with Steve Paulson about the Subservient-Chicken-dot-com web site and why it’s a new kind of advertising.
Jane Juska tells Anne Strainchamps why, at the age of 66, she took out an ad in the NY Review of Books looking for as many sexual partners as possible.
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