Jennifer Hecht is the author of “Funny” – a book of poems based on jokes.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Marian Marzinski tells host Jim Fleming about his new documentary “Patriots Day”, which tells the tale of Revolutionary War reenactors at the battle of Lexington & Concord.
Princeton neuroscientist Michael Graziano tells Steve Paulson that our ideas about spirits and the soul can be entirely explained by new insights from brain science.
Have you been to the High Line yet? It’s one of Manhattan's newest parks. In the summer, it's full of sunbathers, lush plantings and strolling locals. It’s also about 30 feet above the ground, built on the bed of an old elevated train line. Writer Annik LaFarge talks about the park, five years into its reinvention.
Steve's hard at work on this weekend’s “Words and Music” show. Here's his note on the inspiration behind the show, and a taste of an interview with a scientist who's putting rappers in MRI machines.
Neil Innes wrote and sang the tunes for The Rutles, who were Eric Idle’s parody of The Beatles.
John Haught believes these so called "new atheists" simply don't measure up to the old athiests like Nietzsche and Camus.
NPR's Robert Krulwich, co-host of RADIOLAB, says that the secret to good science reporting is to start at the beginning and go slowly so people can understand it.
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