Film critic & scholar Emanuel Levy grew up on the movies. In Israel they had no television and so his parents would take him to the movies once or twice a week.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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No one expected the latest inspiration: "Ed Gein: The Musical."
Brian Christian is the author of "The Most Human Human: What Talking with Computers Teaches Us About What It Means to Be Alive." In 2009, he won the annual Loebner Prize -- awarded to the computer program that comes closest to passing the Turing Test for artificial intelligence. Christian won for being the "most human human."
Faith Adiele flunked out of Harvard and went to Thailand to study languages. There, she became the first ordained Black Buddhist Nun.
Daniel Cavicchi spent three years talking to his fellow Bruce Springsteen fans. The result is a book called “Tramps Like Us: Music and Meaning among Springsteen Fans.”
Frederick Turner is the author of “1929: a Novel of the Jazz Age.” Turner reads from the book and talks with Steve Paulson about its central character, Bix Beiderbeck.
Biologist Cindy Engel tells Steve Paulson that wild animals self-medicate in a number of ways and that there is really no difference for animals between nutrition and medicine.
This six minute short film sets a typical frat house scene with heightened visual intensity: beer pong, drunk girls, guys with their shirts off doing shots, hazing rituals, fights. The twist is that the guy at the center of the film is clearly attracted to one of his frat brothers.
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