Psychiatrist Darold Treffert regards savants as "islands of genius." He talks about a lifetime of studying savant syndrome.
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Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Chris Hardman decided to redesign the calendar, representing time and the seasons the way we experience them in the natural world.
David Gilmour has written a biography of the great British writer Rudyard Kipling. Gilmour tells Anne Strainchamps that Kipling’s range is unrivaled.
Brian Christian is the author of "The Most Human Human: What Talking with Computers Teaches Us About What It Means to Be Alive." He tells Steve Paulson why he decided to compete in the annual Turing competition, not for the most human computer, but for the "most human human."
Hip hop artist DJ Spooky brought a crew to Antarctica and created Sinfonia Antarctica. He tells us how his audio portrait documents the effects of climate change on the continent.
Research and experiments on time travel being done by some of the world's leading theoretical physicists and David Toomey is here to tell us about it.
Elizabeth George, author of the Inspector Lynley mysteries, talks about her new novel that tells the life story of the mixed race boy who's arrested for the fatal mugging of the Inspector's wife, which occurred in the previous novel in the series.
Dwight Reynolds talks with Steve Paulson about the history of religious tolerance in Al-Andalus and how it was reflected in the music of Moorish Spain.
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