Billy Collins reads the poem, "Reader," from his new collection of poems, "Aimless Love."
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Rob Walker writes the weekly column "Consumed," for the New York Times Magazine...
Richard Fortey tells Anne Strainchamps why he’s been a life-long fan of trilobites, ancient water creatures who swarmed the Earth millions of years before dinosaurs.
Does science have inherent limits? Physicist Marcelo Gleiser thinks so, and he says it's liberating to know that science can only give us an incomplete picture of reality.
Patrick Hennessey tells Jim Fleming about his war service in Iraq and Afghanistan and the role that books played in his life as a soldier.
Charles Monroe-Kane prepared a profile of singer/songwriter Neko Case, a country singer who's haunted by the American Dream.
Louann Brizendine tells Jim Fleming that male brains are fueled by testosterone and female brains are fueled by estrogen and that they are chemically and physically different from each other.
If you're worried about zombies every time you step outside, Max Brooks is your man.
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