Bill Moyers has won 9 Peabody Awards and 30 Emmys, and now hosts a show on PBS. His particular niche is exploring big ideas on television, as he did in his memorable series with myth-maker Joseph Campbell.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Carel Van Schaik tells Steve Paulson that orangutans, those great red apes, use tools and pass learning down from one generation to the next.
David Abram is an ecologist, anthropologist and philosopher, and author of "Becoming Animal."
There are lots of ways we identify ourselves – where we come from, our race, our religion… but perhaps nothing shapes our identity more than whether we’re a man or a woman. But even that can get really complicated. Independent producer Aubrey Ralph explains.
The celebrated cartoonist Chris Ware has a graphic novel called “Building Stories.” It’s like nothing Steve Paulson has ever seen or read before.
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.
Information, information everywhere... where's knowledge? David Weinberger from the Berkman Center for Internet and Society says knowledge lies in the links between data and info.
Hans Ulrich Obrist's dangerous idea is to create a museum for projects that haven't been completed—he calls it "A Palace of Unbuilt Roads."
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