Writer Dan Chaon talks about his new book of non-supernatural ghost stories, "Stay Awake."
Writer Dan Chaon talks about his new book of non-supernatural ghost stories, "Stay Awake."
Comic novelist David Lodge takes on the old battle between science and the humanities in his latest book, “Thinks.”
Hip hop artist DJ Spooky brought a crew to Antarctica and created Sinfonia Antarctica. He tells us how his audio portrait documents the effects of climate change on the continent.
Tufts Medical School psychiatrist Daniel Carlat believes psychiatry is in crisis.
Entomologist Deborah Gordon tells Steve Paulson that ant colonies run with no one in charge. She’s spent years figuring out how they do it.
Dwight Reynolds talks with Steve Paulson about the history of religious tolerance in Al-Andalus and how it was reflected in the music of Moorish Spain.
Charles Hartman collaborated with his computer to write poetry. He describes his experience in the book “Virtual Muse: Experiments in Computer Poetry.”
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.