Lucy Jago tells Steve Paulson about the life and work of the Norwegian scientist who figured out what really causes the Northern Lights.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Nicholas Basbanes tells Steve Paulson that people destroy books to annihilate the culture of their enemies and remembers some of the heroes who fought to save books from the Nazis and in Bosnia.
Meg Gaines is an attorney who was diagnosed in 1994 with terminal, inoperable ovarian cancer. She is now cancer free.
Norman Doidge is a psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, researcher at the University of Toronto, and author of "The Brain that Changes Itself."
Robert Gordon tells Steve Paulson that he discovered the great Black Blues players while still a white boy in high school and that the racial complexities of Memphis have always been at the heart of its music.
Jane Goodall revolutionized the study of primates and forced people to reconsider what it means to be human. She tells Steve Paulson about her decades of work with chimpanzees.
Joao Magueijo has been stirring things up in Physics with his book, “Faster Than the Speed of Light.” He posits that the speed of light can vary.
In 2001, reporter Marja Mills met the celebrated and notoriously private author of “To Kill a Mockingbird,” Harper Lee. The two struck up a friendship and, a few years after their first meeting, the two became neighbors. Mills writes about their friendship in her new memoir, “The Mockingbird Next Door.”
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