Three physicists just won the Nobel Prize for their discovery that the universe is rapidly expanding.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Plant biologist Nicholas Harberd took a year off to study a common weed - the thalecress - that he found growing in a country churchyard.
Michael Perry is a writer and volunteer fireman who lives in the small town of New Auburn, Wisconsin. His memoir about his adventures on the rescue squad there is called “Population 485: Meeting Your Neighbors One Siren at a Time.”
So maybe you're not going to be the next Richard Pryor.
Even if you don't get many more laughs, you can laugh more. Katie West tells us how.
He talks about his new CD, "Sorry We're Open," and his future projects.
In his last few years, Sacks revealed more details about his own life. One of the most remarkable revelations was his extensive use of LSD and other hallucinogens in the ‘60s. He tells Steve Paulson that psychedelics nearly killed him, but they also opened his mind to new ways of seeing the world.
Peter Guralnick has written a prize-winning two part biography of Elvis Presley. Now he's tackled Sam Cooke.
Jim Fleming explores Wisconsin’s Cave of the Mounds with Marcia Bjornerud, author of “Reading the Rocks: The Autobiography of the Earth.”
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