Ernie Cline talks to Anne Strainchamps about his novel, "Ready Player One," which revolves around a massively multi-player online game and '80s pop culture.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Engineer Bill Gurstelle loves things that go BOOM! Gurstelle tells Jim Fleming how to build and operate the Potato Cannon and a Roman catapult.
David Michaelis tells Steve Paulson that Charles Schultz put a lot of himself into the Charlie Brown character, was greatly influenced by his mid-Western upbringing.
Charles Monroe-Kane profiles one of the ultimate hipsters – musician and cult hero Chuck E. Weiss. With lots of music by him and inspired by him.
Brian Christian is the author of "The Most Human Human: What Talking with Computers Teaches Us About What It Means to Be Alive." He tells Steve Paulson why he decided to compete in the annual Turing competition, not for the most human computer, but for the "most human human."
Film-maker Deborah Scranton gave cameras directly to troops on the ground, then spent months editing the footage they sent her.
The Kitchen Sisters (public radio producers Davia Nelson and Nikki Silva) talk with Anne Strainchamps and give her samples of the 2007 season of Hidden Kitchens.
Most young men during the Vietnam era faced a choice, whether or not to be drafted into the US Armed Forces. For Jim Fleming, and his friends Robert Cardinaux and Mark Peterson, the chose to become Conscientious Objectors. They worked together in alternative service as psychiatric aides.
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