Scott Simon, host of NPR's Weekend Edition Saturday, and his wife have adopted two baby girls from China. Simon tells Anne Strainchamps why he and his wife are such fans of adoption.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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If climate change is the most urgent problem facing humanity, why are there so few novels about it? Acclaimed novelist Amitav Ghosh believes that’s a big problem. He says climate change is less a science problem than a crisis of imagination.
Signe Pike chucked her job at a NY publishing house to looking for fairies in Mexico and the British Isles.
We hear from Artificial Intelligence pioneer Marvin Minsky, physicist Roger Penrose, philosopher Daniel Dennett, New Age guru Deepak Chopra, and many more.
Susan Abulhawa and Margot Singer talk with Steve Paulson about their experiences and writing about life in the refugee camps of the West Bank.
Washington Post report T.R. Reid tells Anne Strainchamps about the changing relationship between Europe and the United States as Europe emerges into a leading economic superpower.
You've heard of Charles A. Lindbergh, the first pilot to cross the Atlantic. But what about Charles A. Levine? The two men shared more than the same initials. In 1927, they were locked in a battle to make aviation history. Lindbergh beat Levine across the Atlantic by two weeks. Henry Sapoznik brings us the story of two planes, two songs, and two men named Charles.
In this dangerous idea, computational mastermind Stephen Wolfram wonders about the distant future of humanity, and what will happen when—not if!—humans achieve immortality.
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