Eugene Mirman is an indie comic and the author of an outlandish self-help send-up called "The Will to Whatevs." He tells Jim Fleming that school was horrible for him and gave rise to his nerd humor.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Contemplating the multiverse is mind-blowing, but if you want a truly earth-shattering controversy in physics, you have to go back 500 years to Copernicus' radical theory. Dava Sobel tells his story.
Dominique Browning tells Anne Strainchamps that after her divorce, she took a perverse pride in letting her house fall apart. Eventually, she came back to life and started taking care of things again.
Physicist Michio Kaku's Dangerous Idea? A virtual "library of souls."
Barry Glassner tells Steve Paulson that Americans seem to think the value of a meal lies principally in what it lacks - no sugar, fat, carbs, calories, etc. He explores the myths that make us the food police.
Great Britain is one of the first countries to create "a gross national happiness index" - thanks largely to Lord Richard Layard. He says economics should focus on what makes people happy.
Christian Lander sees himself as an expert on "Stuff White People Like".
There are sad songs in rock, and sad songs in jazz, but the resting place for the saddest songs is clearly in country music.
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