The way we think about happiness today is a thin, watery version of a deep and complex subject.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Michael Lewis joins us to talk about his riveting new account of how high-frequency trading is destroying Wall Street. His new book is "Flash Boys."
A 93 year old bee-keeping Sherlock Holmes gets embroiled with the son of a former client in Japan, and forges a relationship with his new housekeeper's son.
Writer Mary Allen talks with Steve Paulson about her attempts to communicate with the spirit of the man she loved after his suicide.
Randall Kennedy tells Steve Paulson about some notorious cases where racially mixed children were left in impossible situations by state miscegenation laws.
Peter Cordani is CEO of Dyn-O-Mat. He invents things. Like Dyn-O-Storm - a polymer gel that can be sprayed on clouds to make them go away.
Vladimir Nabokov is not only a great literary figure. He was a world-class lepidopterist who named ten new species. Pyle tells Judith Strasser about Nabokov’s work with butterflies.
Joe Davis, Adam Zaretsky and Oron Catts make bioart - art objects that include living tissue or organisms. They tell Steve Paulson about their work.
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