After we produced this program, Krista sat down with Chris Farrell, APM's chief economics correspondent, to get a broader perspective on the field of neuroeconomics.
SoundSeen (our multimedia stories)
SoundSeen (our multimedia stories)
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Stuart Brown pointed out that play can manifest itself in many ways: reading, hiking, painting…. For some adults in Santa Monica, the traveling rings on Muscle Beach not only offer exercise but a chance to resolve the angst of their workdays with the serenity of swinging in a beautiful setting.
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Anyone who has a pet can testify that play is not exclusive to humans. And, in the wild, different species often are at odds. But, Stuart Brown witnessed something different. Here, he describes Norbert Rosing's striking images of a wild polar bear playing with sled dogs in the wilds of Canada's Hudson Bay.
June 28, 2006 – Washington DC
This religious tendency is not simply the result of successful marketing by skilled preachers or the draw of popular mega-churches. In fact, it speaks to a hunger that's deeper than that — a hunger that goes beyond any particular issue or cause.
Krista's live conversation with Joshua DuBois at the Fitzgerald Theater in Saint Paul, Minnesota.
Listen and view an audio gallery features images of Kenyan women striving for a more verdant future. Photos are accompanied by Wangari Maathai singing a native tune in Kiswahili that's often sung while planting trees.
View the Liän Ensemble with Fatemeh Keshavarz put the poetry of Rumi to music in this January 27, 2007 performance at a Stanford University event celebrating Rumi's 800th birthday.
In 1946, the U.S. Army printed a haggadah for the first Passover after liberation from Nazi control. A stirring series of woodcut images by Miklós Adler interweaves the Exodus story with the liberation of Jews in Germany after World War II.
The legacy of Argentina's Dirty War lives on in the children of those who disappeared. Portraits of those who remain, and poetry from one who survived.
With one video camera remaining, we filmed Krista's public conversation with David Brooks and E.J. Dionne, including the invocation by Jean Bethke Elshtain.
