Richard Dawkins is an eminent biologist at Oxford University and one of the world's most famous atheists.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Michael Dowse talks with Steve Paulson about his film “It’s All Gone Pete Tong,” which chronicles the rise and fall of deaf DJ Frankie Wilde. The only trouble is, Wilde never existed.
Jane Yolen likes to re-invent the stories about King Arthur. In her version, it’s Guinevere who first pulls the sword from the stone!
Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson is the author of more than a dozen books, most recently “The Pig Who Sang to the Moon.” He says that farm animals have rich, complex emotional lives.
The music of avant-garde composer Philip Glass is distinct and memorable. His span reaches across opera and symphonies to film scores and popular music. One cannot exaggerate the influence this world-renowned composer has had on modern classic music. And now, at 78, Philip Glass has given us one more work to ponder: his memoir, called “Words Without Music.”
Earlier this year, the 14th Dalai Lama of Tibet handed over the last of his political power, to a secular, Harvard-educated politician. Lobsang Sangay left his fellowship and family in the United States to take up his new post, and all of its challenges.
Neurologist Oliver Sacks is famous for his stories of people with brain disorders. In his book "Musicophilia," he writes about people who were transformed by music.
At the heart of many Americans' fear of black men is an ugly stereotype -- the stereotype of the black criminal. Historian Khalil Gibran Muhammad traces some of our current attitudes about race and crime to the late 19th century, when sociologists first began looking at crime statistics.
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