Ethan Watters is the author of “Urban Tribes.” Watters says that the TV show “Friends” is a good example of the kind of social group he’s talking about.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Media theorist Douglas Rushkoff says the writing's on the wall: in the future, you can either make the software... or you can BE the software.
Carl Wilson is a writer and editor at Canada's national newspaper "The Globe and Mail," and the author of "Let's Talk about Love: A Journey to the End of Taste." The book examines the phenomenon of Celine Dion, the best-selling female recording artist in the world.
In this extended interview, Buddhist chaplain Steve Spiro talks about meditations on mortality, about setting the scene at a deathbed, and shares more stories of conscious dying and living.
Videographer Frank Boll is satisfied with only a few seconds of good wolf footage in his series "Wolves in Wisconsin". He talks about what it took to get that much.
Christa Weil talks about eating national dishes like putrefied shark meat and her curious experience eating blow fish in Japan.
TTBOOK’s Charles Monroe-Kane visits the cornfield in Dyersville, Iowa where they filmed “Field of Dreams.”
Rebecca Goldstein's Dangerous Idea? Teach children to be rigorous critical thinkers.
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