Psychologist Steven Pinker's Dangerous Idea? We may be living in the most peaceful time of our species’ existence.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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David Snowdon tells Steve Paulson how “The Nun Study” works, and what he’s learned about the physical effects on the brain of conditions like Alzheimer’s.
Writer Edmund White looks back over 50 years of gay love and liberation. Although married, White has resisted what he calls “gay assimilation”. He talks about the politics of gay sex and promiscuity.
Father Abuna Elias Chacour is a Palestinian, Arab, Christian Israeli. He runs the Mar Elias Interfaith Institution, which teaches students up to 50 years old principles of religious toleration.
Dave Soldier is a neurologist with an unusual hobby. He teaches elephants to play musical instruments.
Fred Pearce tells Steve Paulson he went to over 30 countries and discovered people are simply taking too much water out of the world's river systems.
Do physicists think about End Times? Noted string theorist Brian Greene does. He looks into the far future - billions of years from now - and sees a very dark universe.
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