Brother Satyananda and Deborah Willoughby tell Jim Fleming that yoga is much more than an exercise program. It’s meant to be a union of body and mind.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Carole Case wrote a history of New York’s Jockey Club, the elite cartel that controls the thoroughbred stud book.
Daniel Pauly tells Steve Paulson that technological changes in the modern fishery are wiping out vast populations of fish.
Eve Van Cauter is a sleep researcher at the University of Chicago. She tells Steve Paulson that her findings link sleep deprivation with diabetes and obesity.
Karen Armstrong is the author of nearly 20 books on religion. She tells Steve Paulson that traditions from Confucianism to Judaism emerged as responses to the rampant violence of their time. And she says our own time has a lot in common with that age.
David Denby hatched a plan to make a million dollars on the stock market. Then the dot com bubble burst, and he watched his new fortune wither away.
This is Charles. This interview was recorded near the end of the presidential race when everyone and their brother was trying to figure out what was happening in the minds of poor, white voters. I grew up in poverty under the shadows of Northeast Ohio steel mills. And it struck me that many of the insight everyone was looking for was right there in the music of where I grew up. In my opinion, the best example of that voice in 2016 was country music singer-songwriter Brandy Clark. Her album, "Big Day in a Small Town," had the answers, if anyone dared to listen.
What makes Cuban music so distinctive? Radio host Jonathan Overby describes its history, which blends African rhythms with Spanish elegance.
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