Sarah Lewis talks about her book, "The Rise: Creativity, The Gift of Failure, and the Search for Mastery."
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Doug Gordon found Steve Nieve in Chicago and talked with him about his music and his collection of sounds.
Steven Pinker tells Steve Paulson that parents don’t really have much to do with shaping their children’s personalities.
What happens when war becomes just another video game? Lido Giovacchini tells a story of futuristic combat.
Saul Williams has been hailed as hip hop's poet laureate. He talks with Anne Strainchamps, and we hear some of his work.
Michael Paterniti travels to the highlands of Spain to track down one of the world's greatest cheesemakers.
There's a short story about a guy who's so afraid of other people reading his mind that he wears a tin foil hat to protect his thoughts. The tin foil part is crazy, but protecting your mind is maybe not such a bad idea. Academic psychologist Rob Brotherton says there are certain psychological traits that predispose people to believe in conspiracy theories. For example, there's an experiment done by a group of psychologists in Amsterdam. It involves a group of subjects and a messy desk.
FIND OUT HOW LIKELY YOU ARE TO BELIEVE IN CONSPIRACY THEORIES BY TAKING ROB'S QUIZ.
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