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Are shared human values possible and sustainable without religion? This is the subject of life philosopher Alain de Botton’s new book, Religion for Atheists.
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Our April 3, 2012 live interview with Richard Tafel on human rights, faith, and meeting global challenges.
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The public needs to be demanding that internet service providers are more accountable, says internet policy expert Rebecca MacKinnon.
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Perhaps the depth and complexity of the human voice explains radio’s unique power as a storytelling medium.
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Nobel-Prize winning neuropsychiatrist Eric Kandel describes new research which hints at the possibility of a biological basis to the unconscious mind.
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The French talk about education. They don’t talk about raising kids. And one of the things that the French believe you teach children is how to eat.
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For any American parents out there who are struggling with mealtimes, here are a few humble tips from the French.
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Craig Taylor describes how he went about writing Londoners, a collection of incredibly diverse perspectives that collectively express the soul of this modern city.
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As our world becomes increasingly intertwined and amorphous, and American interests involve more external players than before, it is important that we make an effort to immerse ourselves in different […]
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Michio Kaku: I believe in solar power, but there are problems that we have to face, and one of them is low efficiency.
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The “Goldilocks” zone, astronomically speaking, is the habitable zone in a galaxy. That is where astrobiologists believe we can find liquid water and therefore the potential for life as we know it.
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Very often, the most creative things happen in the most implausible places, such as the creation of the first electronic digital computer at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton.
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In his latest book The Age of Insight: The Quest to Understand the Unconscious in Art, Mind and Brain from Vienna 1900 to the Present, Nobel Prize winner Eric Kandel talks […]