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What happens in your brain when you dance?  Frank Browning talks with scientists and choreographers in France and the U.S. about the "dancing brain."

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Celia Brooks Brown tells Anne Strainchamps vegetarian food is gaining in popularity because it is healthy and delicious.

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Brendan Halpin tells Steve Paulson about his early days as a teacher and why he stuck it out for several years.

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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.

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John Safran says we need writers who are outsiders. Otherwise, groups will keep hiding their secrets.

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Emily Gould became an Internet celebrity for her writing on Gawker, a popular New York City blog.

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Chris Jones tells us what happened to the three astronauts left in space when the space shuttle Columbia was lost in 2003.

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Fareed Zakaria is the editor of Newsweek International magazine and the author of “The Future of Freedom: Liberal Democracy at Home and Abroad.”  He talks about how free elections are not the answer for the third world.

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