Carl Honore talks with Anne Strainchamps about how the Slowness movement got started and how it's developed into a revolution.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Belquis Ahmadi is Afghan, Sameena Nazir is Pakistani. They tell Steve Paulson why Afghans welcomed the Taliban at first, what happened when they revealed their hidden agenda of oppressing women and controlling education.
Journalist Jon Ronson recounts his memorable night out with a real life superhero named Phoenix Jones.
We hear from orangutan researcher Birute Galdikas who talks about her experience in Borneo observing the lives orangutans and about the deep connections she shared with them.
The best-selling Turkish novelist Elif Shafak was put on trial ten years ago for "insulting Turkishness". She says the political climate in Turkey is more polarized than ever today, and even riskier for writers. She also believes fiction can help heal divided cultures.
"True Detective" creator and writer Nic Pizzolatto recommends "Absalom, Absalom" by William Faulkner.
Antonio Damasio says by understanding the details of what the body is doing when we experience an emotion, science will be able to develop better therapies and interventions.
Erin McKean talks with Anne Strainchamps about the pleasures of strange words like “squintefego” and “limiculous.”
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