John Stilgoe tells Jim Fleming that people would discover all sorts of new things if they would walk or ride a bicycle and leave the car at home.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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British writer and playwright Michael Frayn talks with Steve Paulson about “Headlong." The book is about the painter Brueghel and the mania afflicting art collectors.
Pulitzer prize-winning journalist - and undocumented immigrant -- Jose Antonio Vargas is in our Crossroads show this week. Want to hear the EXTENDED interview with him? Here it is...
Do you need an advanced degree in math or physics to make discoveries about the cosmos? Science writer Margaret Wertheim says thousands of amateur scientists have proposed their own theories about the universe.
Ray Kurzweil believes we'll soon have tiny computers embedded in our brains. He says we're on the verge of a new era in evolution - a fusion of biology and machine technology.
NPR Cultural Critic Neda Ulaby helps Jim Fleming unravel the complications of the 2006 film "Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story."
Jared Diamond has written “Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed.” He discusses a few case histories - like Easter Island - with Steve Paulson.
Novelist Mark Salzman talks about his experience teaching creative writing at Central Juvenile Hall in Los Angeles, a detention center for L.A.’s most serious young offenders.
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