Augustin De la Pena is a psycho-physiologist who works at a sleep disorders center in South Texas, and a leading authority on boredom.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
Audio
Kat Duff recommends "Awakening Osiris: The Egyptian Book of the Dead," translated by Normandi Ellis.
Journalist Jon Ronson recounts his memorable night out with a real life superhero named Phoenix Jones.
Douglas Quin is an award-winning sound designer, naturalist and composer. His latest project is called "Fathom."
His job for the New York Times is to troll the internet for new and noteworthy words. What do these words tell us about the times we live in?
Meet the popular blogger who launched a national conversation when she stripped down to her size 18 swimsuit on national television. Brittany Gibbons is a body image advocate who wants to help women everywhere feel comfortable in their own skin. Every inch of it.
Carol Dweck is researcher at Stanford University. She says everybody fails, but not everybody fails the right way.
Erik Larson talks about the World’s Columbian Exposition of 1893 and what it meant for Chicago at the turn of the century, and talks about America’s first serial killer who was operating in Chicago at the same time.
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