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Sun, 10/25/2020 - 1:00pm |
Being Sincere In a Cynical World - Why is the world so cynical? Rather than surrendering to corrosive, hopeless snark, we look to some unexpected sources to make the case for sincerity. |
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Sat, 10/24/2020 - 3:00pm |
Everything Is Exhausting - It's not just the big thing that are hard right now. It's the little things -- answering email, returning a phone call, mailing a package. If daily life suddenly seems exhausting, it's because we are -- collectively -- burned out. This week, how to cope with and overcome it. |
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Thu, 10/22/2020 - 10:00pm |
Worshipping Waterfalls - Some biologists believe chimpanzees might have some kind of proto-spiritual life. If that's so, what does it say about humans? Is belief in God -- one or many -- hardwired? |
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Wed, 10/21/2020 - 10:00pm |
Democracy on the Ballot - Across the country, voting has already begun. And if you feel like there's something different about this election, you're right -- because this time, democracy is on the ballot. Do you have your voting plan in place? |
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Thu, 10/15/2020 - 10:00pm |
Locked Up - Most of us will never know what really happens behind bars. Prisons are generally off limits to the public and press, but several new investigations are drawing attention to the conditions in many of our nation's jails. This hour, what should a prison be? |
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Wed, 10/14/2020 - 10:00pm |
The Resilient Brain - New experiences actually rewire the brain. So after all we’ve been through this year, you have to wonder — are we different? We consider the "COVID brain" from the perspective of both neuroscience and the arts. Also, we go to Cavendish, Vermont to hear the remarkable story of Phineas Gage, the railroad worker whose traumatic brain injury changed the history of neuroscience. |
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Thu, 10/08/2020 - 10:00pm |
Magical Thinking - "Magical thinking" gets a bad rap these days. It suggests losing your grip on reality or being so gullible that you'll believe anything — from ghosts and miracles to fortune tellers. But what if magic isn't pure fantasy? Maybe it's the gateway to wonder. |
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Wed, 10/07/2020 - 10:00pm |
Eye To Eye Animal Encounters - There's a certain a kind of visual encounter that can be life changing: A cross-species gaze. The experience of looking directly into the eyes of an animal in the wild, and seeing it look back. It happens more often than you’d think and it can be so profound, there’s a name for it: eye-to-eye epiphany. How does it change people, and what can it teach us? |
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Thu, 10/01/2020 - 10:00pm |
Center of the World - Amidst economic devastation, producer Charles Monroe-Kane asks what it takes to survive in the Rust Belt. |
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