DBC Pierre won this year’s Booker Prize for his novel, “Vernon God Little.” Pierre reads from the book and talks about it and about his own tangled past.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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What if you could take a pill or download netware to supercharge your brain? Physicist Michio Kaku says augmented intelligence and memory playback systems are the future of brain science.
Jon Ronson believes capitalism favors psychopaths and is creating more of them.
Anthony Horowitz has written dozens of books for children, including the teen superspy series featuring Alex Rider.
Clay Shirky is an internet expert and author of "Here Comes Everybody." He tells Steve Paulson how wide acceptance of social networking sites has dramatically changed our expectations of the media and even the role of journalism.
Carole Angier is the author of “”The Double Bond: Primo Levi, A Biography.” Levi was a brilliant chemist who mined the world of chemistry for metaphors to help him process his experiences as a Holocaust survivor
Daniel Matt tells Steve Paulson that the Big Bang Theory is science's creation myth...
Ayelet Waldman talks with Jim Fleming about maternal ambivalence and loving children when you don't like them.
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