Eric Jarosinski bookmarks "Mythologies" by Roland Barthes.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Brian Palmer has been a staff writer at Fortune magazine, Beijing bureau chief for US News and World Report and a correspondent for CNN. He tells Anne Strainchamps that none of that prepared him for Iraq where he was embedded with the First Battalion/Second Marines.
Carl Honore speaks about the cultural revolution that is the "philosophy of slow."
Welcome to the wonderful, wild mind of Monty Python's Terry Gilliam, who went on to direct the acclaimed films "Brazil," "Time Bandits" and "12 Monkeys." In an interview that can only be described as "Gilliamesque," Doug Gordon talks to the comedy legend.
Charles Monroe-Kane reports on Brian Dunn, who “finds” other people’s photographs and then keeps them. Some of the found photos are on our Web site.
NPR's Eric Nuzum reveals his lifelong fear of ghosts in a haunting new memoir, “Giving Up The Ghost” – the story of his troubled teenage years, suicidal fantasies and conviction that he was being stalked by the ghost of a little girl. In this EXTENDED interview, he talks with Anne Strainchamps about depression, friendship, and what it means to be haunted.
Nobel Laureate psychologist Daniel Kahneman talks to Steve Paulson about the two basic systems that drive the way we think. Kahneman is the author of "Thinking, Fast and Slow.'
Are humans hard-wired to forgive? Psychologist Michael McCullough's research traces the evolutionary roots of forgiveness and revenge.
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