Black, white and Jewish: Rebecca Walker talks with Steve Paulson about her unconventional upbringing and how having a child of her own changed her feelings about it.
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Is there a science of rap? Pioneering neuroscientist Charles Limb has put freestyle rappers inside brain-scanning machines, and he's seen an explosion of neural activity.
In the gaming world, game designer Jason Rohrer is a god. Now, saying someone is a god in a certain field is a figure of speech. I mean, they’re not REALLY immortal beings. That is, unless you’re Jason Rohrer.
Did you know nature is good for you? Richard Louv can cite studies that show crime rates go up in cities with less green space.
Jerome Charyn tells Steve Paulson about some of the great ping-pong matches of the past and reflects on the worldwide popularity of the game.
Manny Yarborough is 6'7" tall, weighs over 700 pounds, and is a former amateur world champion sumo wrestler.
The stereotype of photojournalists is that they’re adrenaline junkies. Risk takers. But they're often surprisingly humble about their work -- maybe because their job is to erase themselves, to become the lens that lets us see the world. Here photojournalist Brendan Bannon talks about finding beauty in the midst of suffering and about a photo he took at the Dadaab refugee camp in Kenya.
Novelist Joanna Trollope reads from "Second Honeymoon" and talks about why the empty nest syndrome is particularly difficult for women.
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