Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Steven Pinker tells Steve Paulson that parents don’t really have much to do with shaping their children’s personalities.
Steve Grand tells Jim Fleming about Norns – virtual pets that live and breed in desktop computers. He says the Norns give us a way to explore questions about what it means to be alive and what rights and responsibilities "living" creatures have.
What would a world without national borders look like? There's a good chance it'd look very similar to the one we have today. Parag Khanna is a global strategist who believes borders are becoming irrelevant in an increasingly connected world. More than national boundaries, he believes what matters are the connections between cities.
Michael Paterniti travels to the highlands of Spain to track down one of the world's greatest cheesemakers.
Terry Tempest Williams reads from her book, "Red," and talks about the desert with Steve Paulson.
Rolf De Heer talks about the experience of collaborating with the aboriginal people of Ramingining and how extraordinary the process was.
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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