Damali Ayo runs the website rent-a-negro.com. She's written a book called "How To Rent A Negro."
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Colm Toibin is the author of a novel called “The Master,” based on the life of Henry James.
Have you heard about Amazon's plans to start a fleet of delivery drones? What would that look like? Listener Sandra Cheasty gives us a glimpse in her short story, "Drones Gone Wild."
Psychologist Steven Pinker's Dangerous Idea? We may be living in the most peaceful time of our species’ existence.
Copernicus changed the world with his revolutionary idea that the sun, not the Earth, is the center of our solar system. Dava Sobel tells us why this momentous discovery wasn't easy for Copernicus himself.
Don't look for authenticity on your plate! That's the message of Barry Glassner's book, "The Gospel of Food."
The Hindu nationalist party, the BJP, has won a landslide election in India, sparking fears of new sectarianism. Celebrated author and activist Arundhati Roy is one of the BJP’s most prominent critics. In this EXTENDED interview, Roy tells Steve Paulson why she stopped writing fiction to focus on political activism. She begins with a reading from her Booker Prize-winning novel “The God of Small Things.”
David Perkins, founding member of Harvard think tank Project Zero, talks with Anne Strainchamps about Eureka Moments.
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