Jim Fleming interviews Brian Greene before a live audience at Borders Booksellers in Madison, Wisconsin. They talk about the lasting significance of Albert Einstein, and Greene answers questions from the audience.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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The Kitchen Sisters (public radio producers Davia Nelson and Nikki Silva) talk with Anne Strainchamps and give her samples of the 2007 season of Hidden Kitchens.
In this EXTENDED interview, Dr. Eduardo Rodriguez tells the story of a marathon facial transplantation for his patient, Richard Norris.
Aubrey de Grey has identified seven categories of molecular and cellular damage. He says if we can prevent or repair that damage, there's no reason why people can't go on living indefinitely.
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.
Chris Turner is the author of “Planet Simpson: How A Carton Masterpiece Defined A Generation.”
David Stockman. Stockman? Uhm, Stockman? Oh yeah, President Reagan’s budget director. One of the architects of supply-side economics. Well, he’s back in the limelight all these years later with his best-selling book “The Great Deformation”.
As the Books Editor of Paste Magazine, Charles McNair cares deeply about what we read. But McNair is concerned that we're only reading a handful of the artists available to us, thanks to what he calls a kind of geographic hegemony of taste-making. In other words - we're all reading the same books because a handful of respected critics on the East and West coasts tell us to.
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