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Faith's BLT Chicken with Grilled Buttered Cornbread   INGREDIENTS: (Serves 4)   4 boneless, skinless chicken breasts  4 strips crispy bacon Cornbread for 4, homemade or store-bought Cherry tomatoes, halved 1 bunch of diced scallions or 1 red onion, diced 1 bunch fresh cilantro, chopped, stems and all 1-2 diced avocados Lettuce for 4 1 stick so...

Today: TERRIBLE TELEVISION. Storage Wars, Million Second Quiz, Jersey Shore, Real Housewives of Orange County, American Idol, Deal or No Deal, Duck Dynasty… What's your guilty pleasure TV? Duck Dynasty is the highest rated cable TV show ever. No kidding. Ever. Call in at 3pm: 203 776-WNPR. And don't even TRY to tell us you only watch PBS. Don't even try it.

Museum attendance is up in Connecticut, New York, and nationwide—why do we go? What makes something art? If you don't understand it, does that make you feel dumb? AND: A look at the groovy new 1960s hippie show at the Wadsworth Atheneum. Join the conversation by email, on Twitter, or on Facebook.

Happy New Year! It's Rosh Hashanah. The new television season is upon us. And… school's back in session. Today at 3 and 9pm, we'll look at this back to school season. Students, teachers, parents: How was your first day of school? Were you excited about the new school year? Dreading it? Have your feelings changed now that you're back into the swing of things? What are your best tips and tri...

The recipe didn't come out like the picture, you used regular salt instead of kosher salt, your oven temperature was way off. Does any of this sound familiar? Today we're talking about kitchen disasters.

What is time? This deceptively simple question is the single most important problem facing science as we probe more deeply into the fundamentals of the universe. All of the mysteries physicists and cosmologists face—from the Big Bang to the future of the universe, from the puzzles of quantum physics to the unification of forces and particles—come down to the nature of time. The fact that t...

On Second Thought: Outsmarting Your Mind's Hard-Wired Habits Our lives are composed of millions of choices, ranging from trivial to life-changing and momentous. Luckily, our brains have evolved a number of mental shortcuts, biases, and tricks that allow us to quickly negotiate this endless array of decisions. We don’t want to rationally deliberate every choice we make, and thanks to these c...

We all know love matters, but today, positive emotions expert Barbara Fredrickson joins Faith to show us just how much. Even more than happiness and optimism, love holds the key to improving our mental and physical health as well as lengthening our lives. Using research from her own lab, Fredrickson redefines love not as a stable behemoth, but as micro-moments of connection between people—even...

Fall is finally almost kind of here, and to celebrate we devote most of the Food Schmooze to apples. Amy Traverso returns with her book, The Apple Lovers’ Cookbook. Plus, Ruta Kahate and her Quick-Fix Indian.

Today: The way the thoughts we have and the decisions we make are influenced by forces that aren't always in our control. Why are people named Kim, Kelly, and Ken more likely to donate to Hurricane Katrina victims than to Hurricane Rita victims? Are you really more likely to solve puzzles if you watch a light bulb illuminate? How did installing blue lights along a Japanese railway line halt...

The printing press, the pencil, the flush toilet, the battery—these are all great ideas. But where do they come from? What kind of environment breeds them? What sparks the flash of brilliance? How do we generate the groundbreaking ideas that push forward our lives, our society, our culture? Steven Johnson’s answers are revelatory as he identifies the seven key patterns behind genuine innovation...

The Book Show gang joins Faith with recommendations in all categories. What’re you reading? What’ve you recently read and loved? Are you a librarian? A teacher? Are you part of a book club? Join the conversation on Facebook or Twitter.

Join the Food Schmooze gang for a look at post-summer grilling. Plus, the cookbooks Wine Bites: 64 Nibbles That Pair Perfectly with Wine and The Book Club Cookbook: Recipes and Food for Thought from Your Book Club's Favorite Books and Authors.

Goddess of the Market: Ayn Rand and the American Right by Jennifer Burns Worshipped by her fans, denounced by her enemies, and forever shadowed by controversy and scandal, the novelist and philosopher Ayn Rand was a powerful thinker whose views on government and markets shaped the conservative movement from its earliest days. Drawing on unprecedented access to Rand's private papers and th...