British novelist Nick Hornby has written a funny book about suicide. It's called "A Long Way Down."
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Indian film-maker Mira Nair talks with Jim Fleming about being a woman director, and combining stories from East and West.
Joelle Biele discusses the correspondences between poet Elizabeth Bishop and The New Yorker.
Psychologist Martin Seligman is the former president of the American Psychological Association. He tells Jim Fleming about his philosophy of “Positive Psychology.”
Rick Perlstein is a historian who thinks the real story of the sixties is the rise of the modern conservative movement.
Melissa Fay Greene provides a profile of the AIDS orphans of Ethiopia and one remarkable woman who saved dozens by opening her home to them after the death of her adult daughter from AIDS.
Many of the biggest ideas in science today were dreamed up in the studios of NY's avant garde artists. So says John Brockman. He was there. Today, he brings the same wide-ranging intellectual spirit to his online science salon, Edge.org.
Want to hear more of Domenico Vicinanza's music from Voyager 1 and 2? Here it is.
Are we alone in the universe? Almost certainly not. The young science of astrobiology is closing in on a discovery that will rock our world: there IS life beyond earth. New telescopes, new missions, and new discoveries in outer space and in the most remote areas of our own planet all point to one conclusion. Extra terrestrial life exists, and we're very close to finding it. Science writer Marc Kaufman explains what's changed.
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