John MacGregor is an art historian with psychiatric training, and the author of “Henry Darger: In the Realms of the Unreal.”
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Psychologist Martin Seligman is the former president of the American Psychological Association. He tells Jim Fleming about his philosophy of “Positive Psychology.”
Richard Poplak tells Anne Strainchamps about the ill-fated attempt to adapt The Simpsons for the Arab world.
Will we ever understand the true nature of dark matter and dark energy? Harvard cosmologist Lisa Randall considers these and other great mysteries in physics.
Michael Perry is proud to be a Wisconsin writer. He writes with humor and grace about his life there in the books, "Population: 485," and "Truck: A Love Story." So, what's life like, as a writer from the Midwest?
Melissa Fay Greene provides a profile of the AIDS orphans of Ethiopia and one remarkable woman who saved dozens by opening her home to them after the death of her adult daughter from AIDS.
Alan Dale says laughing at slapstick is - at its heart - an expression of our sympathy with TV and film characters who get hurt. He says it's also relief that, for once, it's not us in pain.
NPR's Robert Krulwich, co-host of RADIOLAB, says that the secret to good science reporting is to start at the beginning and go slowly so people can understand it.
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