Social critic Bill McKibben says we’re rushing through a momentous doorway into a new age of human evolution
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Journalist Naomi Klein is in Paris covering the Climate Summit. She says if we're serious about climate change, we need to confront capitalism itself.
Eric Kandel has spent a lifetime studying the science of memory and picked up a Nobel Prize while he was at it.
Charles McGrath thinks comic books or graphic novels are becoming a legitimate art form that will probably continue to evolve.
Chris Thomas King played blues legend Tommy Johnson in the film “O Brother, Where Art Thou?” His tune on the soundtrack won 3 Grammy Awards. King sees his music as a bridge between the worlds of hip hop and the Blues.
Mary Pauline Lowry has been obsessed with fire since she was a child. And she's pursued this obsession throughout her life -- by working as a member of a hotshot crew fighting wildland fires and writing a novel called "Wildfire" based on her experience.
In Connie Willis' world, historians can actually go to the past to study.
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