Salman Rushdie on Truth, Language and the Power of Stories

Salman Rushdie on Truth, Language and the Pow...

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Why Does It Sometimes Pay to Be a Chicken? With Professor Michael Wooldridge

From Brexit negotiations and the Cuban Missile Crisis to elections, auctions and everyday decision-making, game theory can offer powerful insights into how we navigate a world shaped by competing interests, cooperation and strategic choices. In this episode, Professor Michael Woo ...  عرض المزيد

How does DNA Shape Our World? With Professor Turi King

Professor Turi King, Director of the Milner Centre for Evolution at the University of Bath, is known for leading the genetic investigation identifying Richard III and advising on the Mary Jane Kelly case (the last victim of Jack the Ripper). She co-presents the BBC’s DNA Family S ...  عرض المزيد

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Salman Rushdie Is Not Who You Think He Is
The Ezra Klein Show

Salman Rushdie’s 1988 novel, “The Satanic Verses,” made him the target of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, who denounced the book as blasphemous and issued a fatwa c ...

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Salman Rushdie: Is free speech under attack?
The Cultural Frontline

This week, as the world has been reacting to the shocking news of the attack on the author Sir Salman Rushdie at a book event in New York State, The Cultural Frontline asks what this attack means for the world of writers and publishing and what it says about freedom of expression ...  عرض المزيد

74 | Stephen Greenblatt on Stories, History, and Cultural Poetics
Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

An infinite number of things happen; we bring structure and meaning to the world by making art and telling stories about it. Every work of literature created by human beings comes out of an historical and cultural context, and drawing connections between art and its context can b ...  عرض المزيد

Malcolm Gladwell
Tell Me with Ellen Pompeo

Cultural Icon, podcaster, and Multiple New York Times best-selling author Malcolm Gladwell sits down with Ellen to discuss memory, feeling for a living, and his new book Miracle and Wonder, Conversations with Paul Simon.