Is science really open to every good idea? Controversial biologist Rupert Sheldrake says modern science is mired in various dogmas - boundaries you're not supposed to cross, at least if you value your job and your reputation.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Stewart Brand, founder of the Whole Earth Catalogue, says it's time to get pragmatic about managing climate change.
Sarah Bakewell is the author of “How to Live” an unorthodox biography of the great French philosopher and essayist Montaigne.
Noted nature writer Terry Tempest Williams knows that the woods can be frightening, if you go walking in them with the wrong person. She tells the story of how she narrowly escaped a brutal attack while hiking.
Svetlana Boym tells Anne Strainchamps that nostalgia was invented in the 17th century and seen as an actual physical condition for the next century of so.
By now, it's almost commonplace to worry that the amount of time you spend on the Internet is actually rewiring your brain. But the first person to really put the issue on the cultural map was the writer Nicholas Carr -- in a book that's become a contemporary classic: "The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains."
Why are millions of British TV viewers obsessed with the Danish TV show The Killing? And will Americans ever get to see the original? We catch up with the show's creator, Danish writer/director Soren Sveistrup.
In her novel "Bread and Butter," Michelle Wildgen takes us behind the scenes at two upscale restaurants owned by brothers. Sibling rivalry has never been so delicious.
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