On Being with Krista Tippett: Episodes
What happens when you bring together science and poetry on something like color or light? Arthur Zajonc is a physicist and contemplative. And he says we can all investigate life as vigorously from the inside as from the outside.
Arthur Zajonc is a physics professor at Amhearst College and is the director of the academic program at the Center of Contemplative Mind and Society. Krista Tippett spoke with him on May 4, 2010 from the studios of APM in Saint Paul, Minnesota; Arthur Zajonc was in a private recording studio in Berkeley, ...
Linguistics pioneer Jean Berko Gleason unlocks the way we learn an amazing and crucial human skill, learning to talk. She studies how language emerges from childhood on, and says it reveals unexpected truths about our human relationships with our world, and our consciousness of ourselves.
Jean Berko Gleason is a linguistics pioneer exploring connections between language, relationships, and consciousness. Krista Tippett spoke with her on September 27, 2011 from the studios of APM in Saint Paul, Minnesota; Jean Berko Gleason was in the studios of WGBH in Boston. This interview is included ...
A renowned Buddhist teacher and author, Matthieu Ricard trained as a cell biologist and is now part of the Dalai Lama's ongoing dialogue with scientists. We'll explore why he's been called the happiest man in the world, and how he understands spirituality as "contemplative science."
Ricard is a French-Tibetan monk and the Dalai Lama's French interpreter. Krista Tippett spoke with him on September 30, 2009 in Vancouver, Canada. This interview is included in our show "The 'Happiest' Man in the World." Download the mp3 of the produced show at on-being-dot-org.
Journalist Joanna Brooks gives us an inside view of this "Mormon moment" of American life, a moment of deepened self-searching with the emergence of a viable Mormon presidential candidate. Brooks, who writes the blog, "Ask Mormon Girl," describes herself as unorthodox, but still passionately planted ...
Joanna Brooks is a journalist and author of the blog "Ask Mormon Girl." Krista Tippett spoke with her on October 6, 2011 from the studios of APM in Saint Paul, Minnesota; Joanna Brooks was in Studio West in San Diego. This interview is included in our show "Mormon Demystified." Download the mp3 of the ...
A profound stutter as a child left Alan Rabinowitz virtually unable to communicate and to prefer animals to people. He became a wildlife biologist and made his name as an explorer in some of the world's last wild places -- discovering new animal species, encountering human communities believed to be ...
Celebrated Torah scholar Avivah Zornberg is the daughter and granddaughter of rabbis of East European lineage. She's also steeped in the Jewish mystical tradition of Kabbalah. She connects deep and unexpected currents between the Bible and the lived situation of the reader.
Avivah Zornberg is a celebrated Torah scholar and the author of "The Murmuring Deep: Reflections on the Biblical Unconscious" and "The Beginning of Desire: Reflections on Genesis." Krista Tippett spoke with her in her home in Jerusalem on March 16, 2011. This interview is included in our show "The Genesis ...
Wangari Maathai, the first African woman to win a Nobel Peace Prize, died this week. A biologist by training, she founded the Greenbelt Movement and made visible the links between trees and soil, war and peace, and the human body and spirit. We replay our beautiful 2006 conversation in her memory.
At the age of 80, David Hartman, a Jewish philosopher and Orthodox rabbi, is a revered if provocative figure in Israeli society. His voice and stories let us inside the inner life of Israel in some sense -- struggles and searching that shape news from this part of the world but are rarely heard directly.
David Hartman is a Jewish philosopher and Orthodox rabbi, and founder of the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem, Israel. He's also the author of many books, including "A Heart of Many Rooms" and "The God Who Hates Lies." Krista Tippett spoke with him at the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem on ...
Sari Nusseibeh, a Palestinian philosopher and president of Al-Quds University, comes from a family that has been in Jerusalem for 1300 years. His personal story enfolds layers of history that are shaping current history in the making.
Sari Nusseibeh is president and professor of Philosophy at Al-Quds University in Jerusalem. His books include "Once Upon a Country: A Palestinian Life" and "What Is a Palestinian State Worth?" Krista Tippett spoke with him in his office at Al-Quds University in East Jerusalem on March 15, 2011. This ...
Who do we want to be for the next decade? What wisdom do we want to focus on, and grow more deeply into, as we move forward as a culture and pass on this narrative of 9/11 to generations to come? A discussion with Hendrik Hertzberg, Serene Jones, and Pankaj Mishra at St. Paul's Chapel near Ground Zero ...
Krista Tippett spoke with journalist Hendrik Hertzberg, theologian Serene Jones, and author Pankaj Mishra at a live event on September 6, 2011 from St. Paul's Chapel in NYC a decade following 9/11. This interview is included in our show "Who Do We Want to Become? Remembering Forward Ten Years after 9/11" ...
Sherry Turkle's book, "Alone Together," created a catchword for anxiety about the alienating potential of technology. But that's not really her message. We explore the real challenge she poses -- that we can and must lead examined lives with our digital objects -- actively shaping technology to human purposes.
Civil rights veteran Vincent Harding has a long lens of wisdom on contemporary divisions and confusions. He says America is still a developing nation when it comes to democratic encounter across real difference. But he finds hope in the young people he's been bringing into creative contact with civil ...