Philippe Petit is the author of “To Reach the Clouds: My High Wire Walk between the Twin Towers.”
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Louise Barnett, author of tells Jim Fleming about the case of Captain Andrew Geddes, who was tried and convicted of slandering a fellow officer, even though the man was clearly guilty of sexually abusing his daughter.
According to psychologist Meagan Curtis, the inherent sadness of the minor third is what we hear in music.
Nadine Svoboda’s been all over the world listening to forests. She records their sounds for the British Library Sound Archive.
Lada Adamic is one of a host of data scientists working at facebook. Anne Strainchamps wanted to know what all those sociologists are up to.
Check out Facebook's social science website.
A portrait of Kathputli, India's last remaining magician's colony.
Mark Anderson tells Steve Paulson that no single piece of evidence for Shakespeare's identity is conclusive, but all the funny coincidences "prove" his thesis.
Novelist Michael Ondaatje met film editor Walter Murch during the filming of Ondaatje’s Booker Prize winning “The English Patient.” Their conversations matured into a book: “The Conversation: Walter Murch and the Art of Editing Film.”
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