In 2006, Barack Obama was the new darling of the Democratic Party and was considering a Presidential run in 2008.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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If we think of cities as organisms, their DNA is the hodgepodge of rules that shape development. Urban planner Emily Talen talks about how city zoning, coding and laws got started, and how they need to be changed to help us build more livable cities.
Take a look at a visual archive of city plans.
Conn Iggulden wrote "The Dangerous Book for Boys" with his brother, Hal. The idea is not to injure children but to help them have more fun.
Nobel Prize-winning psychologist Daniel Kahneman is fascinated by the way memory shapes our sense of self. But he says our memories can be quite different from what we actually experience.
You can also listen to the EXTENDED interview, and read the extended transcript.
Novelist Stephan Eirik Clark's Dangerous Idea? Subdivide the United States into smaller countries.
David Bond got scared when he received a letter from the government saying they'd lost his newborn daughter's data. He decided to see if he could disappear himself.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon tells Jim Fleming that his recent books are part of a sort of Chinese box set of four inter-related novels involving the same characters and his native city of Barcelona.
Charles Taylor was convicted of mass murder, rape, and sexual slavery, among other crimes this week by the ICC. One of his top warlords, infamous for using child soldiers, is seeking redemption. Listen to this NEW and UNCUT interview about General Butt Naked.
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