Neuroscientist David Eagleman is the author of "Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives." He tells...
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Dr. Catherine Lord tells Anne Strainchamps that there is a ten fold reported rise in the incidence of autism but no one knows what accounts for the dramatic rise.
Elizabeth Little is a writer and editor who collects languages. She tells Jim Fleming about the perils of learning tonal languages.
Betsy Israel tells Jim Fleming our society has always been suspicious of unmarried women and talks about examples from Louisa Mat Alcott to Ally McBeal.
Chris Bachelder is the author of "Bear v. Shark: The Novel." He reads excerpts and talks with Anne Strainchamps about the wacky future world he's created.
Journalist Christopher Noxon explains what happened when he formed a personal posse of life coaches in Los Angeles.
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.
"Independent People" by Halldór Laxness reviewed by author David Mitchell ("Cloud Atlas")
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