Elaine Scarry's a defender of beauty. She says not only does beauty thrill and compel us, it also inspires us to make the world more just. Here's our extended interview with her.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Physicist Clifford Pickover talks with Steve Paulson about Magic Squares and why people get hooked on them.
David Kusek tells Jim Fleming how the digital music revolution is changing the way people consume music and what the record industry will have to do to survive.
David Cantwell and Bill Friskics-Warren are the co-authors of “Heartaches by the number: Country Music’s 500 Greatest Singles.”
These days, it seems motherhood has become a struggle just to stay on top of the latest self-help trend.
Fleda Brown, poet laureate of Delaware reads some of her poems and talks with Steve Paulson.
Joe Hill is the son of a writer you've probably heard of -- Stephen King. And Hill is following in his father's footsteps by writing the same kind of bone-chilling horror that his Dad is famous for. Hill's latest novel is called "The Fireman" and it's burning up the best-seller charts.
Craig Venter, who's come as close as anyone has to creating life in a test tube, tells Steve Paulson what drives him.
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