Comedian and writer Tony Hawks conceived the daft idea of hitch-hiking around Ireland with a small refrigerator.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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One of the most interesting stories of 2015 was the idea that is a formula for love—or, more specifically, a series of questions that might fascilitate falling in love. We spoke the author of this study, Arthur Aron, as well as Mandy Len Catron, a woman who used the questions on her partner.
Sherry Turkle discusses the ways in which we are already developing relationships with personal robotic devices from cellphones and iPods to toys like the Furby and My Real Baby.
Cultural historian William Miller, author of “The Mystery of Courage,” tells Steve Paulson that the airline passengers who confronted the hijackers on September 11th displayed extraordinary courage.
Nelson Algren wrote “A Walk on the Wild Side” and won the first National Book Award for “The Man with the Golden Arm,” but was too gritty for most critics
Physicist Ronald Mallet tells Anne Strainchamps why he thinks he can use light to bend the fabric of space and achieve time travel.
Stephen Bloom tells Jim Fleming about a group of Orthodox Jews who moved from Brooklyn to Postville to run a kosher slaughterhouse.
Salman Rushdie tells Steve Paulson that he loved the movie, “The Wizard of Oz” and that he sees it as a parable about home and homelessness.
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