Colin Meloy likes to lose himself in music. He’s the songwriter and lead singer of a band called The Decemberists.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Don Lattin says the whole strange trip started when Leary swallowed some magic mushrooms in Mexico in 1960.
Eddie Lenihan tells a story told to him by the foreman of a road construction crew in Ireland.
Writer Dan Chaon talks about his new book of non-supernatural ghost stories, "Stay Awake."
Brian Christian is the author of "The Most Human Human: What Talking with Computers Teaches Us About What It Means to Be Alive." He tells Steve Paulson why he decided to compete in the annual Turing competition, not for the most human computer, but for the "most human human."
Tufts Medical School psychiatrist Daniel Carlat believes psychiatry is in crisis.
When a loved one dies, most of us turn to a professional, someone like Caitlin Doughty. She's a licensed mortician, death activist, and creator of the popular webseries "Ask A Mortician". In this interview, she talks about what happens when a body is prepared for burial.
David Sterritt tells Steve Paulson about beatnik filmmaker Bruce Conner, the father of the music video and creator of a style of video montage that prefigures today's upcycling movement.
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