From his home in Mexico City, Guillermo Arriaga tells Steve Paulson where the story idea for “21 Grams” came from, and why it was so interesting to have a religious man direct a film written by an atheist that deals with topics like the meaning of life and the afterlife.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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How important is this discovery of hominin fossils in the Rising Star Cave? Paleoanthropologist John Hawks says it overturns many of our assumptions about human prehistory, and also raises profound questions about what these human-like creatures thought about death and ritual.
Geoffrey Colvin says that great performance is within the grasp of anyone who's willing to put in the right kind of practice.
Silence is disappearing in our world. This one of the world's leading audio ecologists brought lots of interesting sonic examples for us to hear.
Jim Fleming talks with Harvey Pekar about "American Splendor" and his friendship with Robert Crumb.
George Saunders talks about his new short-story collection, "Tenth of December."
Naturalist Gretel Ehrlich tells Steve Paulson why she visited at length with Inuit people in Greenland.
Holley Bishop is a New York literary agent who once wouldn’t have cared about nature. These days she’s flat-out in love with bees, and has written “Robbing the Bees - A Biography of Honey.”
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