Would you like to sharpen your memory? Science writer Joshua Foer tells you how to build an elaborate memory palace.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Pnina Moed Kass is an American who's lived in Israel for over 35 years. She's written a novel about a suicide bombing and the people whose lived are affected by it.
P.D. James created Adam Dalgleish, a detective almost as beloved as Holmes. Steve Paulson spoke with her on the occasion of the publication of her memoir, "Time to Be in Earnest: A Fragment of Autobiography."
Have you had culture shock? Did it hit when you were travelling or when you were at home?
Writer Josh Swiller says, as a young man, he often felt outside his home culture.
He decided to leave the U.S. altogether and found a whole new world of challenging inter-cultural communication.
Liaquat Ahamed talks about the parallels between the recent financial meltdown and the events that led up to the Great Depression. Both situations involved bubbles, and errors by the Federal Reserve System.
Harvard anthropologist Richard Wrangham says the big question is WHEN did we become human? He tells Steve Paulson it's clearly when we started cooking.
Psychologist Michael Thompson consults with school systems about how to communicate with boys.
The WPA built 650 thousand miles of highways and employed 8 and a half million people. We explore its legacy
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