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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Tufts Medical School psychiatrist Daniel Carlat believes psychiatry is in crisis.
David Stockman. Stockman? Uhm, Stockman? Oh yeah, President Reagan’s budget director. One of the architects of supply-side economics. Well, he’s back in the limelight all these years later with his best-selling book “The Great Deformation”.
David Abram is an ecologist, anthropologist and philosopher, and author of "Becoming Animal."
Diana Butler Bass says we're now living in a post-religious age. What's surprising is how many people are abandoning organized religion, but not God.
Erin Clune brings us and her family to tour the garden of Izzy Fine and Mary Gray who've planted thousands of flowering bulbs on their property in Madison, Wisconsin. Their garden is so spectacular, all the neighbors drop by to wander around.
Why do certain foods fall out of favor? Aaron Bobrow-Strain tracked the rise and fall of white bread for a book on the subject. He believes our anxieties about food often reflect larger social questions.
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