Reality TV manipulates the lives of its participants but we watch it anyway. Why are we so hooked?
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
Audio
Mark Robert Rank tells Steve Paulson that American society is structured to accept a certain amount of poverty but that other capitalist societies have chosen to do things differently.
In “The Hunt for Zero Point” Nick Cook writes about the secret world of research into anti-gravity technology.
Justin O. Schmidt has been stung by nearly every insect with a stinger, from the benign honeybee to the viscious tarantula hawk wasp. He is a research biologist and professor at the University of Arizona school of Entomology and he told Steve Paulson about his creation, the Schmidt Sting Pain Index.
Keith Miller is a novelist for whom libraries function as a muse.
Loren Coleman talks to Steve Paulson about sea monsters. He even weighs in on the reality of the Loch Ness Monster.
Jack Pendarvis reads from his essay "The Fifty Greatest Things That Just Popped Into My Head," published in "The Believer" magazine.
Pages
