Novelist Mark Salzman talks about his experience teaching creative writing at Central Juvenile Hall in Los Angeles, a detention center for L.A.’s most serious young offenders.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Rob Brezsny is a poet, musician, astrologer and the author of “Pronoia Is the Antidote to Paranoia.” He tells Anne Strainchamps that pronoia sees the world as fundamentally friendly...
In this short excerpt, Jane Goodall talks about her lifelong wish to get inside the mind of a chimpanzee. What's it like to think without words?
Novelist Jonathan Coe tells Anne Strainchamps about the careeer of experimental novelist B.S. Johnson who tried to reinvent the novel with every book he wrote.
Princeton neuroscientist Michael Graziano tells Steve Paulson that our ideas about spirits and the soul can be entirely explained by new insights from brain science.
Lawrence Lessig is the creator of the Creative Commons and says that our current copyright law is far too restrictive and stifles creativity.
Robert Wright tells Steve Paulson that the history of monotheism was shaped by the political events of the turbulent ancient Middle East and that Jesus was not a prophet of peace but a typical Jewish apocalyptic preacher obsessed with the approaching End Times.
Psychologist Judith Wallerstein talks with Jim Fleming about the frightening findings from her 25 year study on children of divorce.
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