Michael Benson is a film-maker who’s compiled an extraordinary book of still photographs. Lawrence Weschler wrote the book’s Afterward.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Neuroscientist Jill Bolte Taylor nearly died from a massive stroke at the age of 37. The experience taught her life lessons on how the mind perceives the world.
Singer and pianist Marcia Ball talks about the various kinds of Blues and how they differ from what she usually plays.
Nick Flynn is the author of a memoir of his complex relationship with his father, who showed up as a client at the homeless shelter where Nick was working.
Mark Kurlansky, author of “1968: The Year That Rocked the World” talks about why that year was so significant.
Would you prefer to die in your sleep? Turns out, more people who weighed in on our three deaths question chose that option. Many of the people who shared their choices also took the time to write about why they were making their choice. You can read a selection of their responses here, and get some analysis of who wrote and - perhaps - why.
Physicist Joel Primack and Nancy Abrams tell Steve Paulson how humanity has moved back into the center of our myth-making.
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