Merian C. Cooper dreamed up the original "King Kong." Cooper was an Indiana Jones - type figure himself.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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What if Karl Marx were alive today and came back for a visit? That's the premise of the one-man show "Marx in Soho," starring Brian Jones and written by the late historian Howard Zinn.
A portrait of Kathputli, India's last remaining magician's colony.
Anthropologist Jeremy Narby went to the Peruvian Amazon to study the Ashaninca Indians. The experience transformed his outlook on life, especially once he tried their powerful hallucinogen ayahuasca.
What's it like to win a MacArthur "genius" award? Fiction writer Karen Rusell tells Anne Strainchamps about the day she heard the news, and talks about her special blend of fantasy and realism in her short stories.
What will extraterrestrial life look like? Paul Davies thinks it might be stranger than you can imagine.
Micah Sifry tells Jim Fleming how the United States became largely a two party state, and what benefits a third party can provide.
A recent study of DNA from Neanderthal bones changed everything we thought we knew.
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