Did you hear about our sci-fi short fiction contest? If you want some inspiration, here's Junot Diaz on why he's a big sci-fi fan.
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Jill Bolte Taylor is a Harvard trained brain scientist who suffered a devastating stroke and describes the event and her long struggle to recover in her book, "My Stroke of Insight."
Parker Palmer has a solution to the problems of today's politics and it’s right in the title of this book “Healing the Heart of Democracy: The Courage to Create a Politics Worthy of the Human Spirit.”
Justin O. Schmidt has been stung by nearly every insect with a stinger, from the benign honeybee to the viscious tarantula hawk wasp. He is a research biologist and professor at the University of Arizona school of Entomology and he told Steve Paulson about his creation, the Schmidt Sting Pain Index.
Paul Theroux lived and taught in Africa throughout much of the 1960s. He returned recently and describes the journey in his book “Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Cape Town.”
Joel Kotkin tells Anne Strainchamps how the power of e-commerce is changing where and how we live. He says that knowledge workers choose to live in nerdistans and valhallas.
Rivka Galchen finished her MD and MFA degrees. Now she's published her first novel, "Atmospheric Disturbances."
Keith Miller is a novelist for whom libraries function as a muse.
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