As water becomes a scare resource, how about taxing everyone for the water they use? That's Michal Charles Moore's dangerous idea.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Deborah Madison talks with Anne Strainchamps about shopping at farmer’s markets. She says slowing down for food is one of the best ways to bring pleasure back into your life.
Back in 1956, philosopher Colin Wilson wrote a best-selling book that popularized the concept we’ve been talking about – “The Outsider.” It’s a study of misfit artists and writers, like Kafka, van Gogh and Dostoevsky – it’s never been out of print, and is still considered the classic work on alienation, creativity and the modern psyche. Blair Lorimer from the “Starve the System” YouTube channel thinks everyone should read it.
Eric Lichtblau is one of the New York Times journalists who won a Pulitzer Prize for the story about the NSA's warrantless wire-tapping program.
Most people think of conflict as something to be avoided, but there's another way to view it -- as creative and generative. In his book "The Art of Rivalry," Boston Globe art critic Sebastian Smee explores how intense conflicts, broken friendships and personal reconciliations fueled some of the most dramatic breakthroughs in Modern Art. He tells Steve Paulson that the rivalry between Picasso and Matisse contributed, in part, to cubism.
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.
Barbara Moss grew up dirt poor in rural Alabama with a grotesquely deformed face. In her memoir, she chronicles her quest to claim a little bit of beauty.
Jeff VanderMeer recommends "The Other Side" by Alfred Kubin.
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