Jane Goodall revolutionized the study of primates and forced people to reconsider what it means to be human. She tells Steve Paulson about her decades of work with chimpanzees.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Michael Chabon wrote “Wonder Boys,” the source for the popular Michael Douglas film, and won the Pulitzer Prize for “The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Klay.” Now he’s written a children’s book, “Summerland.”
Poet Laure-Anne Bosselaar edited an anthology of verse called “Urban Nature.” She talks about it with Jim Fleming and reads some of her favorites.
How do young people in Burma use karaoke as a form of political protest?
Myhrvold talks about inventing and his six-volume, 2400-page, 52 pound cookbook called Modernist Cuisine.
The massive protests in Ferguson, Missouri are on our minds this week. We explore the racial conflict and police violence with sociologist Alice Goffman.
Liaquat Ahamed talks about the parallels between the recent financial meltdown and the events that led up to the Great Depression. Both situations involved bubbles, and errors by the Federal Reserve System.
Margaret Atwood says it's a mistake to think about debt as simply a matter of money. Debt is embedded in our psyche and rife in our literary and religious history.
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