Bill Bryson talks with Jim Fleming about the personal stories of some of the people who made great scientific discoveries.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Filmmaker Chai Vasarhelyi followed Youssou N'Dour and his band after the album came out and produced a documentary called "I Bring What I Love."
Colm Toibin is the author of a novel called “The Master,” based on the life of Henry James.
What does it mean to be free? And what does it mean to live a personally authentic, honest life with ourselves and with others? These are the questions that Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir and their existential friends wrestled with in the late 1940s and early 1950s. Sarah Bakewell makes the case that their late-night conversations are especially relevant today. She's the author of "At the Existentialist Cafe: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails."
A few weeks after Dan's funeral, his wife Judy talks about how she's dealing with his absence, and how she wants to remember him.
Dave Soldier is a neurologist with an unusual hobby. He teaches elephants to play musical instruments.
David Thomson makes the case that "Psycho" was a ground-breaking film that forever changed American cinema and America itself.
Chris Rodriguez is a felon serving time at Green Haven Correctional Facility in Stormville, NY. Some of his writing is included in the anthology “Undoing Time."
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