How will we react, the day we hear the news that scientists have found life on another planet? Science fiction writer Orson Scott Card has dreamed up many first contact scenarios. His classic science fiction novel, "Ender's Game" is all about the consequences of a first contact gone badly wrong. He's just published a long-awaited sequel.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Legendary Knopf editor Judith Jones reflects on Julia Child and her influence on cooking in the U.S. She writes about their friendship In her own memoir, "The Tenth Muse: My Life in Food.”
Mark Haddon is the author of “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time.” Haddon narrates the story from the point of view of his hero, who is a fifteen year old boy with Asperger Syndrome.
Anthropologist Tanya Luhrmann's Dangerous Idea? To be better adjusted, change the way you think about thinking.
Richard Ranft has collected underwater sounds of mating haddock, snapping shrimp, walruses and other sea creatures.
Michael Reilly recorded an extraordinary CD called "Como Now: The Voices of Panola County, Mississippi."
Rev. Jesse Jackson is not about to go quietly. He tells Steve Paulson not to confuse a music genre with basic freedoms, and outlines his contributions as a Civil Rights leader over the past 40 years.
Paul Feig is the creator of the critically acclaimed TV series “Freaks and Geeks.” He says that the show (which is no longer on the air) was based on his real-life adolescence.
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