Eric Weiner

Eric Weiner is an author and a long-time foreign correspondent for National Public Radio who writes a regular column for BBC Travel. He lives in in the Washington, DC area.

Eric Weiner appears in the following:

Gastronomy Of Genius: History's Great Minds And The Foods That Fueled Them

Friday, March 11, 2016

By Eric Weiner

From Pythagoras to Balzac, Darwin to Marie Curie, many a genius was inspired by certain edibles, repulsed by others — or had some very peculiar dining habits.

Comment

DNA Testing Provides Shortcut To Trace Family History

Wednesday, January 06, 2016

By Eric Weiner

Think of family trees and you probably think of dusty letters and black-and-white photos of great-grandparents. The latest trend, though, is using DNA testing to explore your ancestry.

Comment

Fighting for Equal Health Care, Trading War for a Brutal Journey

Wednesday, January 06, 2016

Dayna Bowen Matthew reveals shocking racial disparities in health. Tim Blake Nelson on “Anesthesia." The link between place and genius. An Afghan refugee recalls his harrowing journey.

One Man's Globetrotting Quest for Genius

Wednesday, January 06, 2016

In The Geography of Genius, Eric Weiner attempts to discover why certain places are known for creative breakthroughs and cultural achievements... while others are not.

Comment

Big History Challenges Conventional History, Critics Raise Questions

Tuesday, January 05, 2016

By Eric Weiner

While most history courses start with the beginning of human civilization, roughly 10,000 years ago, Big History starts with the Big Bang. Humans don't get mentioned until halfway into the course.

Comment

Will Future Historians Consider These Days The Digital Dark Ages?

Monday, January 04, 2016

By Eric Weiner

We are awash in a sea of information, but how to historians sift through the mountain of data? In the future, computer programs will be unreadable, and therefore worthless, to historians.

Comment

Technology Of Books Has Changed, But Bookstores Are Hanging In There

Thursday, May 28, 2015

By Eric Weiner

The debate over whether digital books are better continues. Yet in the age of Amazon, the number of independent booksellers is up. The revival is fueled, at least in part, by digital natives.

Comments [1]

In A Digital Chapter, Paper Notebooks Are As Relevant As Ever

Wednesday, May 27, 2015

By Eric Weiner

Is paper just a curiosity of the nostalgic? It turns out that digital natives think paper works in tandem with our devices. Research agrees that old-school note taking offers benefits a screen can't.

Comment

Don't Write Off Paper Just Yet

Tuesday, May 26, 2015

By Eric Weiner

In today's digital age it's easy to forget about paper, but as one paper pusher says, "a paperless society is about as plausible as a paperless bathroom."

Comment

Jon Ronson Has Nothing To Be Ashamed Of, But What About The Rest Of Us?

Wednesday, April 01, 2015

By Eric Weiner

Justine Sacco. Jonah Lehrer. Mike Daisey. The names sound vaguely familiar, like an old college friend or distant relative.

They are, in fact, a few of the characters who populate Jon Ronson's sharp-eyed and often hilarious book, So You've Been Publicly Shamed. Sacco, as you might recall, is the public-relations ...

Comment

Flirtations with the Divine

Tuesday, December 13, 2011

Eric Weiner describes tackling our most pressing spiritual questions: Where do we come from? What happens when we die? How should we live our lives? His book Man Seeks God: My Flirtations with the Divine is the story of his search and his travels—from Nepal, where he meditates with Tibetan lamas, to Turkey to China, where he attempts to unblock his chi; to Israel, where he studies Kabbalah, and to Las Vegas, where he has a close encounter with Raelians.

Comments [10]

The Happiest Places in the World

Wednesday, January 23, 2008

Usually foreign correspondents seek the least happy places in the world…like Iraq or Afghanistan. But NPR correspondent Eric Weiner went to the world’s happiest places for his new book The Geography of Bliss.

Event: Eric Weiner will be speaking with Emma Seppala
Part of the Brainwaves: Sacred Science ...

Comments [4]