These days beauty’s got a complicated reputation. One professor of literature and aesthetics at Harvard is giving beauty a makeover.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Are alternative universes purely the stuff of make believe? Or could they actually exist?
Chuck Taggart talks about New Orleans’ rich musical history, and we hear many examples.
Charles McGrath thinks comic books or graphic novels are becoming a legitimate art form that will probably continue to evolve.
Bill Welden, an expert on Tolkien’s Elvish languages, talks about Elvish derivations and vocabulary and remembers his visit to the set of the “The Lord of the Rings” movie.
Nobel Prize-winning psychologist Daniel Kahneman is fascinated by the way memory shapes our sense of self. In this EXTENDED interview, he says our memories can be quite different from what we actually experience.
Corey Powell tells Jim Fleming that science has become the only truly functioning religion.
Brain sciences are overturning centuries of old thinking about human nature.
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