David Hancocks Jim Fleming why zoos should cater to the needs of their animals, not their visitors and that zoos need to evolve into institutions concerned with the long term survival of animals and their habitats.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Diana Butler Bass says we're now living in a post-religious age. What's surprising is how many people are abandoning organized religion, but not God.
Carel Van Schaik tells Steve Paulson that orangutans, those great red apes, use tools and pass learning down from one generation to the next.
Doris Kearns Goodwin talks with Jim Fleming about her best-selling biography, "Team of Rivals."
Faith Adiele flunked out of Harvard and went to Thailand to study languages. There, she became the first ordained Black Buddhist Nun.
As the Books Editor of Paste Magazine, Charles McNair cares deeply about what we read. But McNair is concerned that we're only reading a handful of the artists available to us, thanks to what he calls a kind of geographic hegemony of taste-making. In other words - we're all reading the same books because a handful of respected critics on the East and West coasts tell us to.
Alba is a real rabbit, created in a lab and genetically modified to glow in the dark. Eduardo Kac talks about the moral and ethical implications of art using living subjects.
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