Is there anything science won't tackle? The lastest question, "What is beauty?" We talk with two neuroscientists and an art historian about the new field of neuroaesthetics.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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David Thomson makes the case that "Psycho" was a ground-breaking film that forever changed American cinema and America itself.
"New Yorker" staff writer and book critic James Wood recommends Theodor Fontane's 1894 novel, "Effi Briest."
Flash mobs: seemingly random gatherings of complete strangers doing something completely out of the ordinary. Bill Wasik started this craze.
Brian Raftery tells Jim Fleming about karaoke in Japan and the man who invented it.
Chris Wren was a bureau chief for the New York Times in Cairo, Moscow, Beijing, Ottawa and Johannesburg. The family cat, Henrietta, accompanied his family to may of those postings.
Brain sciences are overturning centuries of old thinking about human nature.
Corey Powell tells Jim Fleming that science has become the only truly functioning religion.
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