Neuro-scientist Robert Provine, author of “Laughter: A Scientific Investigation,” tells Steve Paulson about a two year laughing jag in Tanzania.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Parker Palmer is a writer and educator who's spent a lot of time thinking about the question, "What makes life worth living?"
John Taliaferro is the author of “Great White Fathers: The Story of the Obsessive Quest to Create Mt. Rushmore.”
Have you heard about "sacred economics"? It's Charles Eisenstein's viral idea, that we need to get our economic systems back in line with our values.
Looking for the extended interview with Eisenstein? Here it is.
What happens to your digital self when you die? Currently, Facebook lets users "memorialize" their pages, giving family members a virtual space to post rememberances. Religious studies professor Candi Cann believes new digital tools like these are changing the way we mourn, by letting anyone share their stories about someone who's died, and preserving social connections to departed loved ones.
Lizzie Gottlieb has a younger brother with Asperger's Syndrome, a form of autism. She made a film, "Today's Man," about his abortive efforts to get a job and move out of his parents' brownstone in New York.
Janice VanCleave tells Jim Fleming some of the experiments from the "Weather" volume, including how to build a cloud, and why the sky looks blue.
Creationist Paul Nelson, a fellow at the Discovery Institute, makes the case for his point of view.
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