Maria Suarez tells the story of the five years she spent as a slave and the twenty three years she spent in prison for a murder she didn't commit. Today, Maria is active with a group called "Free the Slaves."
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
Audio
Roald Hoffmann won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry, but he’s also a poet. He thinks the two disciplines have a lot in common, and reads a couple of poems.
Robert Weinberg wrote “The Computers of Star Trek” with co-author Lois Gresh. Weinberg says that Star Trek was ambivalent about computers, and wildly inconsistent about how they worked.
In this week in 1979, Sony introduced the Walkman portable cassette player. In our digital age the cassette is ancient history, right? Thank again.
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.
Looking for a spring read? If you've got a taste for Scandinavian crime fiction, Jens Lapidus's "Easy Money" might satisfy. In this NEW and UNCUT interview, Lapidus tells Steve Paulson that he sees himself as the anti-Stieg Larsson. A movie based on the novel is due to be released this summer. Enjoy!
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.
Jonah Lehrer talks about his new book, "Imagine: How Creativity Works."
Pages
