Junot Diaz bookmarks "Dark Reflections" by Samuel R. Delany.
The end of money. Really? Are we really on the verge of a coming cashless society?
Eric Lichtblau is one of the New York Times journalists who won a Pulitzer Prize for the story about the NSA's warrantless wire-tapping program.
Brian Turner was an average young American who volunteered for military service in Iraq. At night he wrote poetry by flashlight.
Can you fall in love with anyone? More than 20 years ago, psychologist Arthur Aron made two strangers fall in love in his laboratory by asking them 36 questions. Writer Mandy Len Catron tried out the 36 questions with a guy she barely knew. Now they’re in love.
Avital Ronell has been called “the foremost thinker of the repressed conditions of knowledge.” She gives Jim Fleming an inspired take on stupidity.
Daniel Levitin reacts to a musical example Anne Strainchamps provides and talks about music and children's brains.
David Carlyon tells Jim Fleming that Rice was once considered America’s greatest humorist. He was a talking clown, doing satiric commentary on current events.