Anne Allison is the author of "Millennial Monsters: Japanese Toys and the Global Imagination." She talks to Anne Strainchamps about the universal appeal of Japanese pop culture.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Anne DIck, Philip K. Dick's third wife, talks about their relationship.
Aaron Leventhal and Jeff Kraft are the authors of “Footsteps in the Fog: Alfred Hitchcock’s San Francisco.” They tell Anne Strainchamps that Hitchcock knew and loved the Bay area and describe specific ways he used it in his films.
The third place winner in our 3 Minute Futures flash fiction contest is Jedediah Berry's story, "Dogs in the Snow."
Aleph Molinari says approximately 70 percent of the global population does not have access to digital technology. And that digital divide means billions of people are being left out of education, employment, and global dialogues.
Amanda Micheli is a film-maker whose new documentary is called “Double Dare” and traces the lives of two Hollywood stunt women.
Andrew Sullivan says the real conflict after September 11th is between religious absolutists with a medieval mindset and the cultural values of the West - freedom and individuality.
When evangelical Christians say they talk to God, what do they mean? Anthropologist Tanya Luhrmann wanted to find out, so she spent two years as a participant observer in a Charismatic church, talking to the congregation and even praying herself. She says prayer involves cultivating the imagination. Luhrmann also describes her cross-cultural study of schizophrenics who hear voices.
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