Terry Gross

The story of John and Will Kellogg who co-created ready to eat breakfast cereals, like cornflakes. John was a 7th Day Adventist and physician who ran a sanitarium that pioneered the wellness movement. Will Kellogg, the younger brother was the industrial and marketing brains behind Kellogg cereal.

Robert Wright's new book Why Buddhism is True finds connection between Buddhist mindfulness meditation and what evolutionary psychology tells us about how the mind works. He says the practice of meditation as a way to dispel the delusions that make us suffer, is backed up by modern psychology.

Journalist Bill Moyers once worked as the special assistant to President Johnson, where he witnessed first-hand the political maneuvering that resulted in the landmark health care legislation.