Elizabeth Hellmuth Margulis talks about "On Repeat: How Music Plays the Mind."
Elizabeth Hellmuth Margulis talks about "On Repeat: How Music Plays the Mind."
We meet Pete Daly, an engineer with recurrent melanoma who talks about living with cancer.
Jason Spingarn-Koff is a film-maker whose new documentary is called "Life 2.0." It tells the stories of several people who immerse themselves in the "Second Life" computer game...
Jerry Apps is a rural historian and chronicler of country life. His book "Old Farm" is a kind of deep history of his land in Wisconsin.
Jane Goodall is the name best known in the world when you talk about chimpanzees.
Richard Price has a hit with his novel "Lush Life." It's a crime story, but Price says his book has nothing to do with detective fiction or any other genre.
Jody Lewen is the executive director of the Prison University Project, a degree-granting program for the inmates at San Quentin State Prison in California. She's seen first hand the transformative power of knowledge and education and thinks the most important feature of higher education should be accessibility.