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Michael Gershon on "The Second Brain"

Michael Gershon talks about the science behind “gut instinct” and says most of the body’s serotonin is in the gut, not the brain.

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Jim Fleming on The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

TTBOOK host Jim Fleming reflects on The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

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Ray Kurzweil - Kentucky Authors' Forum

Ray Kurzweil and Jim Fleming met up at the 2012 Kentuck Author's Forum. Here's the audio from their on-stage interview!

You can also stream the video here.

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Persi Diaconis on the Math Behind Magic

Persi Diaconis is a former stage magician who uses card shuffling and coin tossing to illustrate complex mathematical formulae.

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Philip Gourevitch on Abu Ghraib

Errol Morris made a documentary about Abu Ghraib called "Standard Operating Procedure." Journalist Philip Gourevitch and Morris have written a companion book that examines what really happened at Abu Ghraib.

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Lorne Ladner on "The Lost Art of Compassion"

Lorne Ladner tells Jim Fleming that accepting the inevitability of one’s own death leads a person to truly appreciate living while you can.

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Keith Ward in Defense of the Soul

Keith Ward talks about the nature of the soul.

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Jon Cohen on the "Humanzee" Crossbreed

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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