Austerity is a choice, and some question if it's a good one.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Mimi Sheraton, a travel writer, went to the Polish town of Bialystock to find the origins of her favorite bread from childhood, the bialy. It’s a crusty onion roll invented by the Jews.
Joan Wylie Hall, author of “Shirley Jackson: A Study of the Short Fiction,” talks with Steve Paulson...
Former TTBOOK producer and interviewer Judith Strasser was diagnosed with stomach cancer in 2005. Last summer, a tumor in her lungs attacked the nerve which controls the larynx, making it difficult, but not impossible, for her to speak.
Poet Molly Peacock's biography of the 18th century paper artist, Mary Delaney.
The evidence is mounting... "we" are mostly who we think we are. Our identities are mental constructs, cobbled together from memory and stories. Jonathan Adler gives us a crash course in narrative identity and mental health.
John McWhorter teaches linguistics at the University of California at Berkeley and is the author of “Doing Our Own Thing: The Degradation of Language and Music and Why We Should, Like, Care.”
Ed Boyden, a researcher at MIT, is at the forefront of a new science that aims to map and even heal the brain with light. It’s called optogenetics, and the journal Science has called it one of the great insights of the 21st century. It’s in its early days, but the goal is to one day be able to take a disease like depression, PTSD, or epilepsy and, using bursts of light, just turn it off -- the same way you’d fix a software glitch in a computer.
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