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.
Episcopal priest Matthew Fox tells Steve Paulson why the belief in Original Sin is destructive and leads to a culture of pessimism.
Psychiatrist Ned Kalin and psychologist Richard Davidson have found that cheerful people tend to have more left-brain activity while people with active right brains tend to be sad and pessimistic.
Jean Auel is the author of the phenomenally successful “Earth’s Children” series of books. Auel tells Anne Strainchamps about the extensive hands on research that informs her work.
Winter. I am getting sick of this winter. It’s hard to get around. I’m never outside. I hate scraping and shoveling. . . And, I’m cold. And most likely you are cold too.
Sometimes making music new is as simple as adding a few new elements. For ground-breaking jazz composer Maria Schneider, that meant adding words (and a few bird calls) to her work.
Novelist Jane Hamilton and her husband grow and sell apples on their farm in Wisconsin...
If your mind is nothing more than brain chemistry, do you have free will? Neuroscientist Michael Gazzaniga says new brain science should change our thinking about this old philosophical question.
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