Duke University neuroscientist Miguel Nicolelis talks about the possibility of upgrading our brains with computer chips.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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In this extended interview, literary scholar Rob Nixon explains why he recently re-read all of Carson’s writing, and says her legacy endures – from her warnings about environmental toxins in “Silent Spring” to her lyrical essays about the wonder of oceans.
In 1975, Dr. Raymond Moody coined the term "near death experience" and published the first definitive account of patients who described dying and coming back to life. He tells Steve Paulson what he's come to believe after listening to thousands of reports.
You know that the first settlers called Manhattan "New Amsterdam"? But the Dutch didn't just bring their sailing prowess and placenames with them. Russell Shorto thinks that liberal Dutch ideas about politics and society came too, and shaped the New World.
Nora Guthrie is folk singer Woody Guthrie’s daughter and runs the Woody Guthrie Archives. Elizabeth Partridge is the author of “This Land Was Made for You and Me,” Guthrie’s biography.
Mandaza Kandemwa is widely recognized in Southern Africa as a traditional healer.
Novelist Jonathan Carroll talks about his book “White Apples.” It’s the story of a man who finds out he’s already dead, and the afterlife is right here.
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