According to behavioral economist Dan Ariely, our lives are a series of ill-considered choices; his quest is to figure out the forces that make us, time after time, irrational decision-makers

Seeking to understand the universal appeal of music, neuroscientist Dale Purves has discovered surprising similarities between the twelve-note chromatic scale and the universal tones found in speech.

Art historian Sarah Schroth tracks down the lost collection of a powerful nobleman, reclaims a forgotten chapter in seventeenth-century spanish art, and helps launch an exhibit of astonishing power-the nasher museum of art's first blockbuster.

Ron Paul engaged voters in ways no other Republican dared and no Libertarian had thought to try. Will Paul's campaign mark the end of a revolution or just the beginning?