physicist Robert Park says we’re inundated with pseudo-science and gives some examples of famous “scientific” scams and failures. Park’s book is “Voodoo Science.”
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Ernest Callenbach’s “Ecotopia” was the bible of a certain kind of environmental activist, back in the 70’s. Producer Charles Monroe-Kane was one of them. He tells us what it was like to try to live the dream.
British writer and playwright Michael Frayn talks with Steve Paulson about “Headlong." The book is about the painter Brueghel and the mania afflicting art collectors.
Do you need an advanced degree in math or physics to make discoveries about the cosmos? Science writer Margaret Wertheim says thousands of amateur scientists have proposed their own theories about the universe.
NPR Cultural Critic Neda Ulaby helps Jim Fleming unravel the complications of the 2006 film "Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story."
Janet Guthrie was the first woman to race in the Indianapolis 500. Her autobiography is called “A Life at Full Throttle.”
Many women are choosing not to have children because they know they are not good enough at nurturing. Madelyn Cain thinks this is an admirable, unselfish decision and one that more and more couples will make in the future.
Ray Kurzweil believes we'll soon have tiny computers embedded in our brains. He says we're on the verge of a new era in evolution - a fusion of biology and machine technology.
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