Meet Your Mind

Your thoughts and feelings, your joy and sorrow....it's all part of your identity, of your consciousness. But what exactly is consciousness? It may be the biggest mystery left in science. And for a radio show that loves 'Big Ideas,' we had to take up the question.  

In our six-hour series, you'll hear interviews with the world's leading experts - neuroscientists, cognitive psychologists, philosophers, writers and artists. We'll take you inside the brains of Buddhist monks, and across the ocean to visit France's ancient cave paintings. We'll tell you how to build a memory palace, and you'll meet one of the first scientists to study the effects of LSD.

How do our brains work?  Are animals conscious? What about computers?  Will we ever crack the mystery of how the physical "stuff" of our brains produces mental experiences?

What does science tell us about the most personal question of all: Who am I?

TTBook: Meet Your Mind Series

Arts & Culture

WAMU 88.5

Art Beat With Lauren Landau, October 7

You can explore one calligrapher's modern take on Korean handwriting, or see two shows that require a little help from the audience.

Food

NPR

Fairfax Schools Pull All-Beef Burgers From Menu, Citing Complaints

Students in a Virginia school system are now eating hamburgers with additives in them, after officials heeded their complaints about the appearance and taste of all-beef burgers it had been serving. The burgers that are now being served include a reported 26 ingredients.

Politics

NPR

No End In Sight: Shutdown Showdown Enters Week Two

Hundreds of thousands of Defense Department civilian employees will go back to work on Monday, but many government operations remain suspended.

Technology

NPR

Wanted: A New Generation Of High-Tech Aviation Workers

Millions of U.S. factory jobs have been lost in the past decade. Now, in North Carolina, high school students are being encouraged to think about taking manufacturing jobs. But this isn't the furniture-making or textile labor of generations past — it's a new kind of highly technical work in aviation.