No one doubts memory is one of the things that shapes our sense of self, but is there a science of self?
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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It’s 2055, a regular weekday morning… Where do you wake up? With a booming population and more people moving into urban areas, chances are you’d be living in a city. But what might that city look like? Mitchell Joaquim is an architect, and one of the founders of the innovative design group, TerreForm1.
You wouldn’t think the novel “Lolita” would go over big in an underground women’s book club in Tehran. But literature, like the people who read it, has a way of surprising you. Azar Nafizi is the author of the celebrated memoir “Reading Lolita in Tehran.”
Daniel Smith talks about his book, "Monkey Mind: A Memoir of Anxiety."
Film critic David Edelstein talks with Jim Fleming about angels in the movies, and we hear lots of examples.
Researchers have discovered that cats have their own taste in music. It sounds nothing like that crap you listen to.
Anthropologist Cynthia Mahmood is among the few Westerners who’s actually spent time talking with Islamic terrorists on their turf.
When it comes to loyalty, dogs win. Now, new evidence suggests dogs and early humans formed an alliance 36,000 years ago. Together, they drove Neanderthals to extinction, then invaded and conquered the rest of the planet.
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