Michael Witzel is the author of “The American Diner.” He talks about the way Hollywood makes use of the diner.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Nicole Smith pilots an Army Apache AH 64 attack helicopter. She is the only African American female to do so.
What’s happening in our brains when we talk or sing or play music? Are language and music different neural processes? Neuroscientist Charles Limb peaks into the mind of a particular kind of musician... rappers.
Parker Palmer has a solution to the problems of today's politics and it’s right in the title of this book “Healing the Heart of Democracy: The Courage to Create a Politics Worthy of the Human Spirit.”
Moustafa Bayoumi talks with Jim Fleming about how 9/11 caused him to feel like an outsider in his own country.
Episcopal priest Matthew Fox tells Steve Paulson why the belief in Original Sin is destructive and leads to a culture of pessimism.
Richard Dawkins is an eminent biologist at Oxford University and one of the world's most famous atheists.
Paul Theroux lived and taught in Africa throughout much of the 1960s. He returned recently and describes the journey in his book “Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Cape Town.”
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