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Intimate conversations about the mysteries of the cosmos and life on a sentient planet with writers, philosophers and scientists who are dazzled by it all.
Historian D. Graham Burnett on how Big Tech is "fracking" our attention — and the grassroots movement fighting to take it back.
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“It was like an earthquake,” says neuroscientist Christof Koch, speaking of the mystical experiences that upended his views on consciousness and even reality.
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Anne and Steve take flight and burn some serious carry-on tonnage with their travel reads.
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“Stories are spells,” Sharon Blackie says. “They change things.” Maybe that’s why fairy tales — old, new, fractured and retold — are having a resurgence. As uncertainty rises and old ways disintegrate, fairy tales offer a roadmap to cultural transformation and re-enchantment.
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Carlo Rovelli’s quest to know the nature of reality began not in a physics lab, but in youthful experiments with consciousness and political protest.
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Can capitalism save the world it’s destroying? Harvard economist and climate activist Rebecca Henderson makes a surprising case for reforming it.
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Dinosaur bones reshaped how Americans see themselves — and their continent. Historian Caroline Winterer traces the deep time revolution and its darker consequences.
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