Mo Yan is a Chinese novelist whom many critics think will be a future Nobel Prize winner. His new novel is called “Big Breasts & Wide Hips.”
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Christian Rudder, the founder of OKCupid, thinks cupid’s arrow may just be an algorithm.
Cognitive researcher Douglas Hofstadter explains how gendered words and phrases — like using "guys" to refer to mixed company — can oftentimes reinforce sexist attitudes.
Robert Glasper's new album Black Radio is a reference to the black box of recordings that survives a plane crash.
Jim Fleming explores Wisconsin’s Cave of the Mounds with Marcia Bjornerud, author of “Reading the Rocks: The Autobiography of the Earth.”
Lynn Garrett tells Steve Paulson that bookstores are selling out of books on Islam and terrorism, and that there’s strong interest in books that tackle fundamental moral questions.
Jim Fleming reads excerpts from Murakami's book "What I Talk About When I Talk About Running."
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