Stacy Peralta was one of the original Z-boys who transformed the sport of skateboarding. Peralta tells Steve Paulson that the Z boys were all wild surfers from a rough neighborhood in west Los Angeles.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Terry Jones, formerly of Monty Python’s Flying Circus, has written a book called “Who Murdered Chaucer?”
Alena Graedon's debut novel is an intellectual thriller set in the near future. Print is dead, words have been monetized, and a "word flu" is running rampant. The book is called "The Word Exchange."
Steve Paulson talks with some leading Darwin experts and goes to see Darwin's letters at Cambridge University in England to try to get at Darwin's views on God.
He meditates 5 hours every day, charms nearly everyone he meets and urges us to be happy and compassionate. The Dalai Lama is now 80. Bestselling author Daniel Goleman reflects on the life and legacy of a singular figure in today's world.
Harvard psychologist Shelley Carson explores new research on how to amplify creativity.
What's Nobel Prize-winning physicist Steven Weinberg's Dangerous Idea? How beauty leads to scientific discovery.
Charles R. Cross talks about Kurt Cobain's influence on hip-hop.
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