Frank Drake says SETI gets lots of false alarms and they’re all caused by signals that originate on earth, and that the situation will only get worse. But he’s still optimistic.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Azadeh Moaveni talks about growing up Iranian in America and American in Iran.
Are you feeling a little cynical? Maybe a little down? Have no fear, we have a documentary to cure what ails you. It’s called “The Gnomist.” As in garden gnomes. And if you think this is some sort of post modern ironic bait and switch you could be no further from the truth. Our producer Charles Monroe-Kane caught up with the film’s director, Sharon Liese, to find out what happened with garden gnomes along the Tomahawk Creek Trail in Overland Park, Kansas. A place now dubbed The Firefly Forest.
Benjamin Kilham rehabilitates and studies wild black bears. Steve Paulson spent a day with him as he visited a mother bear and two cubs that he’s keeping an eye on.
E.L. Doctorow's latest novel is called "The March" and is about the devastating effect on the South during the Civil War of General William Tecumseh Sherman.
Sean Penn reads a section of Bob Dylan’s autobiography where Dylan credits George as one of his greatest influences.
Philosopher Samuel Scheffler bookmarks "The Children of Men" by P.D. James.
Bryant Urstadt is a freelance writer from Connecticut. He wrote "Imagine There's No Oil: Scenes from the Liberal Apocalypse" for Harper's Magazine.
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