John Alderman tells Steve Paulson that once young people figured out how to share music on the Internet, the floodgates were opened.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Philip Ball tells Anne Strainchamps that artists had to be chemists for centuries and that often the paintings we see now look nothing like the originals.
Julie Norem is the author of “The Power of Negative Thinking.” She tells Jim Fleming about her strategy of “defensive pessimism,” and explains the good it can do.
Henrietta Lacks was a poor, African American woman who died of cervical cancer at the age of 31...
Jeffrey Goldberg talks with Jim Fleming about the role of the "public Intellectual" in Israel, the coming demographic problem the country faces, and expresses some doubt about Israel's long-term viability as a Jewish democracy.
Robert Marshall says that the late Carlos Castaneda was a literary trickster who invented most of the teachings of Don Juan which made him famous in the sixties.
You'll have to know the great expectations of Cornell students to be successful for this round of the Whad'Ya Know? Quiz!
Peggy Orenstein tells Anne Strainchamps about “parasite singles” - young Japanese, mostly female, who reject the traditional life of marriage and children.
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