You're either funny, or you're not. Right?
At Chicago's Second City training center, you can learn to get more giggle.
Matt Hovde runs the training center, and gives us a crash course in comedy.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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As Dan Pierotti's health worsens, and the end of his life nears, Dan and his wife confront questions about quality of life and saying goodbye.
Brian Greene is a physicist who specializes in string theory. Greene says that time appears to move in one direction only to complex organisms like people. At the atomic level, electrons don’t know one direction from another.
Candacy Taylor is an award-winning photographer, writer and visual artist.
Daniel Goldmark talks with Jim Fleming about the use of music in animation.
David Syring is descended from the German immigrants who settled the Texas Hill Country. He tells Jim Fleming about his problematical grandfather, and why he still feels rooted to his family's home place.
Charles Mann tells Steve Paulson how there got to be two Bayer companies making aspirin; how it was marketed in South America, and what makes Anacin different from aspirin.
Nobel Prize-winning psychologist Daniel Kahneman is fascinated by the way memory shapes our sense of self. But he says our memories can be quite different from what we actually experience.
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