Richard Powers talks about his latest novel, "Orfeo."
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Journalist John Carlin talks with Steve Paulson about the 1995 rugby tournament that changed South Africa's history.
Kathleen Morris talks about her experience with the mental habit monastics used to describe a kind of frantic escapism and aversion to other people. It's similar, but not identical, to the modern disease of depression.
Neda Ulaby, NPR reporter and cultural critic, talks with Jim Fleming about the film adaptation of Laurence Sterne's "Tristram Shandy."
Coke consistently outsells Pepsi, though Pepsi routinely wins blind taste tests. Why is one of the mysteries of advertising.
Nina Simonds tells Jim Fleming about dining at Singapore's Imperial Herbal restaurant, where the staff herbalist prescribes a meal for you aimed at balancing your yin and yang.
Animal behaviorist Patricia McConnell is the author of "For the Love of a Dog" and the host of the public radio program "Calling All Pets."
Researchers opened the chimpanzee genome in 2005, raising a number of fascinating questions. Chief among them: if we share most of our DNA with chimpanzees, what is it that makes us different?
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