Curtis Sittenfeld is the author of a novel called “Prep.” She tells Steve Paulson what she has in common with her lead character and why she feels protective of her.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
Audio
Francis Collins is one of America's most prominent scientists, longtime head of the Human Genome Project and author of "The Language of God." He's also a Christian...
Psychiatrist Bessel Van Der Kolk's Dangerous Idea? Trauma is a leading public health problem and we have to fix it.
Ellen Prager wants you to care about the oceans. She’s a writer and former chief scientist of the Aquarius Reef Base, the world’s only undersea research station. Her latest book is called “Sex, Drugs, and Sea Slime." She says we ignore the oceans at our own peril.
Christopher Woodward talks with Steve Paulson about the English mania for ruins and why they inspired the Romantic poets. Woodward’s book is “In Ruins.”
With “Hallucinations,” Oliver Sacks has written one of his most personal books. In this NEW and EXTENDED interview, Sacks talks about his personal history with hallucinogens back in the 60s, as well as ecstatic experiences induced by temporal lobe epilepsy, and also how a mysterious voice in his head once saved Sacks’ life.
Flash mobs: seemingly random gatherings of complete strangers doing something completely out of the ordinary. Bill Wasik started this craze.
Augustin De la Pena is a psycho-physiologist who works at a sleep disorders center in South Texas, and a leading authority on boredom.
Pages
