Bryant Urstadt is a freelance writer from Connecticut. He wrote "Imagine There's No Oil: Scenes from the Liberal Apocalypse" for Harper's Magazine.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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In his new book “Incognito,” David Eagleman explores what he calls “the secret lives of the brain.”
David Stubbs argues that new music doesn't get the same respect as new art.
Douglas Coupland says only twenty percent of people are hard-wired to “get” irony and the rest take everything at face value.
Can you fall in love with anyone? More than 20 years ago, psychologist Arthur Aron made two strangers fall in love in his laboratory by asking them 36 questions. Writer Mandy Len Catron tried out the 36 questions with a guy she barely knew. Now they’re in love.
Cary Sudler is descended from a slave-holding plantation family. He discovered that he shares the Sudler name with both black and white families in the area around the old plantation.
Poet, essayist and naturalist Diane Ackerman tells Anne Strainchamps that she shares her garden with the local deer and raises hundreds of roses organically.
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