Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson is the author of more than a dozen books, most recently “The Pig Who Sang to the Moon.” He says that farm animals have rich, complex emotional lives.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Reality TV manipulates the lives of its participants but we watch it anyway. Why are we so hooked?
Madeleine Albright tells Steve Paulson that being the first female Secretary of State was more of a problem within the U.S. than it ever was when she represented our interests abroad.
Perhaps one of the most obvious and important cultural divides in the United States is between the political right and left.
Social psychologist Jonathan Haidt talks with Steve Paulson about his research into the fundamental differences between Democrats and Republican, and how we might begin to speak across the gap.
Did you hear about our sci-fi short fiction contest? If you want some inspiration, here's Junot Diaz on why he's a big sci-fi fan.
Justin O. Schmidt has been stung by nearly every insect with a stinger, from the benign honeybee to the viscious tarantula hawk wasp. He is a research biologist and professor at the University of Arizona school of Entomology and he told Steve Paulson about his creation, the Schmidt Sting Pain Index.
Sometimes making music new is as simple as adding a few new elements. For ground-breaking jazz composer Maria Schneider, that meant adding words (and a few bird calls) to her work.
Maude Barlow is the co-author (with Tony Clark) of “Blue Gold: The Fight to Stop the Theft of the World’s Water.” She tells Jim Fleming that corporations are taking over the world’s water, often with the assistance of governments who privatize municipal water systems.
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