Engineer Bill Gurstelle loves things that go BOOM! Gurstelle tells Jim Fleming how to build and operate the Potato Cannon and a Roman catapult.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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We hear a story from Elna Baker, author of “The New York Regional Mormon Singles Halloween Dance.”
Franklin Foer tells Steve Paulson how soccer's international popularity leads to exchanges of players and coaches among many countries...
We've turned our hearts over to software; 30 million Americans have online dating profiles. About one-fifth of all new relationships in North America start with people meeting online.
So far, the algorithms don't seem to know much more than we do, about what we're looking for.
Anyone who works in news will tell you that photographs drive attention. That a great photograph can propel a story or an issue from the sidelines to the center of a public conversation. Large-scale photographer Edward Burtynsky is making it his life’s work to jump start a global conversation about sustainability – by photographing scarred, damaged industrial landscapes. He’s a TED prize winner whose work is in more than 50 museum collections. Burtynsky and filmmaker Jennifer Baichwal have worked together on two documentaries. Steve Paulson talked with her about their first – filmed in China. It’s called “Manufactured Landscapes.”
In this EXTENDED interview, Dr. Eduardo Rodriguez tells the story of a marathon facial transplantation for his patient, Richard Norris.
Jim Fleming interviews Brian Greene before a live audience at Borders Booksellers in Madison, Wisconsin. They talk about the lasting significance of Albert Einstein, and Greene answers questions from the audience.
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