Journalist Jon Ronson recounts his memorable night out with a real life superhero named Phoenix Jones.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Fred Pearce tells Steve Paulson he went to over 30 countries and discovered people are simply taking too much water out of the world's river systems.
Claude Coleman was the drummer for cult rock group WEEN when he was involved in a car crash that left him with multiple broken bones, paralyzed on his left side, and brain- damaged.
She was born in Somali, settled in the Netherlands and was elected to the Dutch Parliament. She says that her fierce criticism of religion grows out of her own shattering personal experience.
Carol Dweck is researcher at Stanford University. She says everybody fails, but not everybody fails the right way.
Eric Idle is a former member of the Monty Python comedy group and is now touring solo across America. When his tour stopped in Madison, he talked about death and comedy with Doug Gordon.
Astronomers have detected strange light patterrns around a star 1500 light years away. The usual explanations fall short, so Jason Wright says one possibility is a massive structure created by an advanced alien civilization.
Charles Wilkins talks of his summer job as a college student when he worked for a large suburban cemetery in Toronto.
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