Peter Jenkins spent months on the best seller list with “A Walk Across America.” Now he’s gone “Looking for Alaska.”
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Sacks had a particular fascination with the ways our brains can play tricks on our vision. He also reveals his own lifelong struggle to recognize the faces of other people.
Marcus Du Sautoy talks with Jim Fleming about prime numbers and the Riemann Hypothesis and why it’s such an important puzzle for mathematicians.
Nathan Rabin, head writer for "The Onion's" entertainment section, "A.V. Club.", explains the pivotal role popular culture has played throughout his life.
Po Bronson talks with Steve Paulson about some of the families he met who managed to keep their families intact, despite hard times.
With mounting concerns over student debt, we're thinking about higher education this week. Christopher Newfield teaches literature and American Studies at the University of California at Santa Barbara. He believes rising tuition and reduced state funding are threatening the nation's public universities.
Novelist Jane Smiley tells Jim Fleming Dickens had extraordinary energy and vitality, and by writing sympathetically about the poor and working class, he changed English literature forever.
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