Novelist Richard Powers bookmarks "Objects and Empathy" by Arthur Saltzman.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Biologist Elisabet Sahtouris left her teaching job to go live on a Greek island and re-think her life as a scientist.
David Mamet talks with Steve Paulson and says the secret to writing a successful screenplay is to focus on what happens next. That's all the audience cares about.
Bryandt Urstadt tells Steve Paulson about the grim future the peak oilers are already getting ready for and thinks we should all buy gold.
Craig Venter, who's come as close as anyone has to creating life in a test tube, tells Steve Paulson what drives him.
Ersi Arvizu tells Jim Fleming about growing up longing to get involved in the sport of boxing. Her dad ran a boxing gym for boys in their backyard.
In this UNCUT interview, novelist Deborah Harkness talks about studying the history of magic, and then transforming history into fiction.
Literary theorist Terry Eagleton's Dangerous Idea? The humanities are dying.
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