Maria Tatar is the author of "Enchanted Hunters: The Power of Stories in Childhood." She talks with Steve Paulson about what makes fairy tales so compelling to children.
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Acclaimed novelist Colson Whitehead got the magazine assignment of a lifetime: a week in Vegas, playing in the World Series of Poker. He tells Doug Gordon about high stakes poker and his own "anhedonia," his difficulty experiencing pleasure.
Michael Gershon talks about the science behind “gut instinct” and says most of the body’s serotonin is in the gut, not the brain.
Richard Dawkins, a prominent biologist and outspoken atheist, talks with Steve Paulson. Dawkins is the author of "The God Delusion" and a frequent foil for the intelligent design movement.
Have you been to the High Line yet? It’s a new park in Manhattan, full of sunbathers, lush plantings and strolling locals. It’s also about 30 feet above the ground, built on the bed of an old elevated train line. Writer Annik La Farge talks about the park, five years into its reinvention.
Karal Ann Marling tells Anne Strainchamps that American Christmas traditions led to an improvement in the status of women and helped nurture manufacturing industries from candy to cardboard.
Michael Keith recalls his nomadic life with his divorced, alcoholic father. He never had enough to eat, and got into trouble, but decided who he didn’t want to be.
When Kemp Powers was a boy, he and his best friend were playing with a gun. There was an accident. Powers talks with Anne Strainchamps about the shooting and its effect on his life.
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