Across the country – in cafés, dining rooms, and community centers – there's a new conversation taking shape. After decades of sanitizing and sequestering death and dying, America seems to be ready to talk about death. For the next five weeks, we'll be exploring how to start conversations about death with your family, your doctors, and yourself. We'll also take a look at the phenomenon of near-death experience, learn about the conscious death movement, consider how we die and grieve around the world, and much more.

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. In this six-hour series, you’ll hear interviews with the world’s leading experts—neuroscientists, cognitive psychologists, philosophers, writers and artists. You’ll be taken inside the brains of Buddhist monks, and across the ocean to visit France’s ancient cave paintings. You’ll find out how to build a memory palace, and meet one of the first scientists to study the effects of LSD.

The Civil Conversations Project is an ongoing series of radio shows and an online destination that mines fresh vocabulary, lived virtues and practices, and lessons learned where ideals meet hard reality. And, we want you to be part of this diverse, ongoing public conversation. We’re hungry for fresh ways to tell hard truths and redemptive stories,...

To the Best of Our Knowledge, Wisconsin Public Radio and Public Radio International's Peabody Award-winning magazine of ideas, presents a major 5-hour series on the complex relationship between science and spirituality. Through a series of in-depth interviews with leading experts, executive producer Steve Paulson examines 5 central ideas in modern science and their impact on some of the most profound questions facing philosophers and religious thinkers today.