Ilse Blansert says that the community that's grown up around ASMR (autonomous sensory meridian response) has helped her overcome insomnia, anxiety and an eating disorder. In this extended conversation, she talks about how she discovered that there was a name of the tingles she experiences, and the book she's working on about the phenomenon.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Bart Cheever is one of the founders of D.FILM - a touring Digital Film Festival. He says that digital photography makes it possible for anyone to make professional quality films
Neuro-psychologist Brian Butterworth tells Jim Fleming about his work with people who’ve lost their number sense. Butterworth thinks we’re all hard-wired to recognize and manipulate numbers.
David Sterritt talks with Jim Fleming about Jean-Luc Godard's film "Weekend" and we hear clips.
David Hajdu recently wrote a controversial article for The New Republic about the legacy of Alan Lomax. Lomax and his father made field recordings of thousands of folk and blues songs including work by Leadbelly and Muddy Waters.
Social critic Bill McKibben says we’re rushing through a momentous doorway into a new age of human evolution
Frederic Spotts is the author of “Hitler and the Power of Aesthetics.” Spotts says that Hitler saw himself as a painter and was forever wounded by his failure to impress the artistic establishment.
Diana Athill was the editor of some of the most celebrated writers of our time, including John Updike, Simone de Beauvoir, and V.S. Naipaul.
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