KCRW’s Jonathan Bastian talks with renowned Buddhist teacher and psychologist Tara Brach about meditation, mindfulness, and ...

In the Theravada form of Buddhism followed in Southeast Asia, Gautama’s enlightenment is commemorated along with his birth ...

When people "on the other side" are viewed as monsters, the potential for civic cooperation is undercut, writes a Penn State ...

Playground, the latest from Pulitzer Prize winning author Richard Powers, uses the island of Makatea as a microcosm for contemporary debates about AI, environmental justice, and neocolonialism.

What doesn’t come to mind are spaceships zipping through the stars or duels with glowing sticks and supernatural powers. As improbable as it seems, there have been many connections between Coppola and ...

Thanks to his new armor, Spider-Man is already up to speed on using his new magic powers. He takes the fight directly to Cyntros with the Wicked Webs of Wundagore and discovers Cyntros’ weak ...

Richard Powers’s readers know they come to his novels ... Here it is foregrounded in the discovery of the ancient game of Go, by two of the book’s four main characters. It’s nearing the ...

I think that’s very much the driving tone of our book: This guy’s living in the shadows, but gets his power from the Sun. He’s a child of the Sun.” A nomad without a Fortress of Solitude ...

You play as a young man named Akito, who’s possessed by a spirit that inhabits his right hand and gives him supernatural powers. At the urging of the spirit you start investigating the city ...