Wonder Cabinet is an independent podcast from Anne Strainchamps and Steve Paulson, Peabody Award-winning creators of public radio's To The Best Of Our Knowledge. Episodes feature intimate, long-form conversations with scientists, philosophers, writers, and artists exploring the mysteries of the cosmos, the deep intelligence of the natural world, and ideas to re-enchant everyday life.
Emergence Magazine founder and Sufi teacher Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee on rediscovering the sacred in ocean waves, birdsong and the living Earth.
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Can science explain transcendence? Physicist Alan Lightman reflects on extraordinary moments in nature and the transformative power of awe and wonder.
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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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“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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