What if you could take a pill or download netware to supercharge your brain? Physicist Michio Kaku says augmented intelligence and memory playback systems are the future of brain science.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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David Brooks tells Steve Paulson the old ways of schools need to change.
Ayelet Waldman talks with Jim Fleming about maternal ambivalence and loving children when you don't like them.
Brother Guy Consolmagno, author of “Brother Astronomer: Adventures of a Vatican Scientist,” talks wit Jim Fleming about the historic rift between science and religion.
"The Angriest Man in the World", also known as "The Winnebago Man".
Steve Paulson always dreamed of seeing ancient cave art. He finally got his wish - and tells the story of visiting two French caves with anthropologist Christine Desdemaines-Hugon.
“Advances in resuscitation science are beginning to challenge our understanding of what death really is,” says Sam Parnia. He's the director of cardiopulmonary resuscitation research at SUNY NY. Parnia says it's now possible to bring people back to life much longer after cardiac arrest than medicine had previously thought.
Carrie Rickey is the film critic for "The Philadelphia Inquirer." She talks to Steve Paulson about how Marshall McLuhan's ideas influenced David Cronenberg's 1983 sci-fi/horror film, as chronicled in her essay, "Videodrome; Make Mine Cronenberg."
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