James Lovelock believes that our planet is a self-regulating system that will carry on without people and that it is too late to reverse global warming.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Steve Young talks about his book, "Everything's Coming Up Profits: The Golden Age of Industrial Musicals."
Jack Sullivan tells Anne Strainchamps about the partnership between Alfred Hitchcock and Bernard Hermann which resulted in some of the greatest film scores ever written.
Leonard Bernstein’s daughter, Jamie Bernstein Thomas recalls what it was like growing up with her famous father.
Marc Maron says he was washed up. Career? Over.
So he set up a microphone in his garage and starting talking with - and sometimes apologizing to - his fellow comedians.
That's when things started turning around.
Ever wonder how we form beliefs in the first place? Journalist Will Storr tried to find out in his book, “The Unpersuadables.” In it, he follows Holocaust deniers, climate change skeptics, and conspiracy theorists to find out how seemingly intelligent people can hold unconventional, even irrational beliefs.
James Hughes looks forward to the day when we figure out how to merge our human flesh with our computer technology.
Stephen Cave talks about his book, "Immortality: The Quest to Live Forever and How It Drives Civilization."
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