Phil Toledano was worried about the future. So he decided to look it in the face. He took a DNA test and hired a special effects makeup artist to help him become different versions of his future self. Then he staged photos. They're the subject of a new book, MAYBE, and a new film.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Karen Michel got to know her neighbors by asking them three questions about the meaning of life.
In 2005, New York Times journalist Eric Lichtblau wrote a series of articles about the surveillance – without warrants – of some Americans’ international phone calls and e-mails. The Times won a Pulitzer Prize for their reporting. In 2008, Steve asked Lichtblau about covering the NSA’s warrantless wire-tapping program.
Poet Molly Peacock's biography of the 18th century paper artist, Mary Delaney.
Jean Edward Smith is the author of "FDR," and tells Jim Fleming about Franklin Roosevelt's Supreme Court-packing scandal of 1937.
Luke Rhinehart's novel, “The Dice Man", involves a psychiatrist who opens his life to new possibilities by basing his actions on a throw of the diced.
Keren David is a young adult author who has imagined just what living in the Witness Protection Program might mean.
Ed Boyden, a researcher at MIT, is at the forefront of a new science that aims to map and even heal the brain with light. It’s called optogenetics, and the journal Science has called it one of the great insights of the 21st century. It’s in its early days, but the goal is to one day be able to take a disease like depression, PTSD, or epilepsy and, using bursts of light, just turn it off -- the same way you’d fix a software glitch in a computer.
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