John Berendt tells Anne Strainchamps that Venice still feels like a stage set, and that Venetians still carry on in dramatic, even operatic ways.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Paul Krugman is one of America's most visible economists. He teaches at Princeton, has a column in the New York Times and won the 2008 Nobel Prize in Economics.
What do you do when your buddy in high school turns out to be the serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer?
Alexander Weinstein’s “Children of the New World” is a collection of cautionary tales about extreme emotional attachment to software and silicon.
When he was 9, Neil deGrasse Tyson fell in love with astrophysics during his first visit to a planetarium. He was, literally, star-struck, and now runs the Hayden Planetarium.
Najla Said is many things: actress, playwright, author. She’s also a Palestinian-Lebanese-Christian-Arab-American who grew up on New York’s Jewish Upper West Side. And she’s the daughter of the late Edward Said –the famous Palestinian intellectual and activist.
Cosmology is on our minds, with the remarkable new discovery confirming the Big Bang. To get a better sense of what it all means – and how creation stories like the Big Bang have shaped our sense of ourselves – Steve Paulson turned to Adam Frank, an astrophysicist who writes for NPR’s science blog 13.7. He’s the author of the book “About Time: Cosmology and Culture at the Twilight of the Big Bang.”
Matthijs van Boxsel is the author of “The Encyclopedia of Stupidity.” He tells Steve Paulson it started with shame at his own stupidity, but he’s come finally to praise it.
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