Copenhagen, Johannesburg, Kyoto, Rio... it can be hard to keep track of all the international summits where global leaders have tried to tackle climate change. Do international climate negotiations do any good? Author and lobbyist Felix Dodds thinks so. Here's why...
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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David Leavitt is the author of a novel called "The Indian Clerk" which tells the story of Srinivasa Ramanujan, the uneducated Indian who amazed Cambridge University with his mathematical discoveries.
Azar Nafisi is the author of "Reading Lolita in Tehran." Her book tells the story of how this English professor met with her students to discuss Western literature in Revolutionary Iran.
Daniel Radosh is married to a woman whose family is born-again Christian. They took Radosh to a Christian rock festival and introduced him the world of Christian pop culture.
And what of those of us who have died, and come back to life?
Neurosurgeon Eben Alexander had a near death experience in 2008.
Elisabeth Sifton is the daughter of theologian Reinhold Niebuhr, who wrote the famous “Serenity Prayer.” Sifton tells Steve Paulson about the history of the Serenity Prayer.
Neuroscientist David Eagleman is the author of "Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives." He tells...
Esperanza Spalding is one of the brightest young stars in jazz - except she resists being labeled a "jazz musician." In fact, her new album "Emily's D+ Evolution" sounds more like rock than jazz. When she sat down in our studio with Steve Paulson, she talked about her childhood roots in classical music before her momentous discovery of jazz improvisation.
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