Robert Laughlin says that the internet is full of information, but it may not be anything you want.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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John Polkinghorne is a former physicist at Cambridge University who now devotes himself to reconciling science and religion.
Why are we so obsessed with finding someone who completes us? What if we're already complete? That's what Michael Cobb wonders. In his book "Single" he argues that it's time to take the pressure off couples and look at other ways of living.
Peter Klimley is the world’s leading expert on Hammerhead and Great White sharks. He tells Jim Fleming what Hollywood got wrong in “Jaws."
In “The Hunt for Zero Point” Nick Cook writes about the secret world of research into anti-gravity technology.
The Poetry Foundation's mandate is to support "a vigorous presence for poetry." In our digital age, that means getting poems onto our screens, big and small. Catherine Halley run the Foundation's digital programs.
Also, you can hear more poems from Nikki Giovanni here!
Wired columnist and tech writer Clive Thompson unpacks his optimistic take on computer technology -- it's making us, and our kids, smarter.
Historian Margaret MacMillan tells Jim Fleming how a lot of today’s troubles in the Middle East stem from the way the Versailles Treaty after the First World War carved up the Ottoman Empire with no consideration of the Arabs’ political aspirations.
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