Erik Larson talks about the World’s Columbian Exposition of 1893 and what it meant for Chicago at the turn of the century, and talks about America’s first serial killer who was operating in Chicago at the same time.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Is there anything science won't tackle? The lastest question, "What is beauty?" We talk with two neuroscientists and an art historian about the new field of neuroaesthetics.
David Thomson makes the case that "Psycho" was a ground-breaking film that forever changed American cinema and America itself.
Flash mobs: seemingly random gatherings of complete strangers doing something completely out of the ordinary. Bill Wasik started this craze.
Douglas Quin is an award-winning sound designer, naturalist and composer. His latest project is called "Fathom."
Carol Dweck is researcher at Stanford University. She says everybody fails, but not everybody fails the right way.
Daniel Libeskind is the architect whose design was chosen to the master-plan for the new World Trade Center site.
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