Poet Patiann Rogers tells Jim Fleming why she finds the language of science inspiring, and says naming things is the way to notice and appreciate them.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Today we celebrate the 40th anniversary of Punk. For 40 years, punk has influenced not just music, but fashion, film, art… not to mention hairstyles. So what makes punk… punk? Music journalist Legs McNeil is the guy who named it. And chronicled it. Along with Gillian McCain wrote THEE book on the history of punk. It’s an oral history called “Please Kill Me.”
"The Passage" has been described as "an engrossingly horrific account of a post-apocalyptic America." The author says the idea came out of a discussion with his nine-year-old daughter.
When he was 9, Neil deGrasse Tyson fell in love with astrophysics during his first visit to a planetarium. He was, literally, star-struck, and now runs the Hayden Planetarium.
Matthijs van Boxsel is the author of “The Encyclopedia of Stupidity.” He tells Steve Paulson it started with shame at his own stupidity, but he’s come finally to praise it.
Muhammad Yunus won the Nobel Peace Prize for his work as a visionary economist who founded the micro-credit movement and India's Grameen Bank.
With so much curriculum to get through in school - should we still be teaching handwriting? Kitty Burns Florey says - yes!
Jaron Lanier popularized "virtual reality" in the 80s; he thinks Web 2.0 technology is erasing our sense of our own identity.
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