Michio Kaku and Jim Fleming have a grand time exploring levels of impossibility and why the impossible just takes longer.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Nina Paley has made a film using animation, Indonesian shadow puppets and a ‘20s era jazz singer to re-tell the story from the Ramayana of the marriage of the Hindu god Rama and his wife, Sita.
Peter Yellowlees is a professor of psychiatry at the University of Queensland in Australia. His lab has built a device that recreates the aural and visual hallucinations typical of schizophrenia.
Novelist Jennifer Egan talks with Jim Fleming about the middle eastern terrorist at the heart of her novel “Look at Me,” and how she reacted to the events of September 11th.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie won the National Book Critics Circle award for her new novel, "Americanah." We went back to our archives and found this memorable interview with Adichie from 2010, when Steve Paulson spoke to her about her earlier novel "The Thing Around Your Neck."
Billy Collins reads the poem, "Reader," from his new collection of poems, "Aimless Love."
Musharraf Ali Farooqi is the translator of "The Adventures of Amir Hamza" and "Hoshruba."
Quentin Schultze is the author of “Habits of the High Tech Heart.” He says that we should resist “informationism” and try to develop wisdom.
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