Corby Kummer tells Anne Strainchamps about French fleur de sel and it’s Portugese cousin flor de sal. They’re exotic and expensive gourmet sea salts that taste fabulous.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Mindless Eating author and Ithaca native, Brian Wansink, cleans his plate on stage with Michael.
Daniel Levitin runs McGill University's Laboratory for Musical Perception, Cognition and Expertise.
Writer Sam Kriss's Dangerous Idea? The "Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders" as satire.
Philosopher David Chalmers is famous for outlining the "hard problem of consciousness." In this EXTENDED INTERVIEW, he says the materialist framework of science will never be able to explain subjective experience - our thoughts and feelings, the expereince of joy or sorrow, self-awareness.
Jim Fleming and his wife spent a day in Paris being guided around the most fabulous chocolate shops by former Chez Panisse pastry chef, David Lebovitz.
Deb Olin Unferth was swept up in the 80's revolution in Central American out of love.
The average American voter is NOT smarter than a 5th grader, doesn't understand basic political facts and should probably not be allowed to vote. Philosopher Jason Brennan makes the case for an epistocracy: the rule of the knowledgeable.
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