After suffering a terrible concussion, game designer Jane McGonigal created a game to help her feel better. In the years since, it's helped nearly half a million other people overcome depression, anxiety and other mood disorders.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Some trips are more about psychic distance, like that of novelist Sherman Alexie. He's spent his whole life shuttling across cultural divides.
Lawrence Ross delved into the "Green Book," a 1957 handbook to help black motorists find safe stops along the highway, and used it to shape a contemporary road trip that celebrated black history, culture, and business.
Manal al-Sharif on how the most transgressive thing a Saudi woman could do was learn to drive.
Finn Murphy talks about his career as a long-haul driver who moves people's possessions across the country.
Journalism professor David Dennis on how popular conspiracy theories in the black community find their roots in abuses that actually happened.
Journalist Zach Beauchamps guides us through what he calls the "Russiasphere," the online world of liberal fake news.
Economist Bryan Caplan and producer Rehman Tungekar explain how an "open borders" policy could end global poverty.
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