“I learned virtually nothing about mortality when I was in medical school,” Dr. Atul Gawande says. “I was terrible at knowing how to have a successful conversation with people facing terminal illness.” Gawande, author of the bestselling “Being Mortal,” is now trying to get people talking about better ways to live out the final chapter.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Are alternative universes purely the stuff of make believe? Or could they actually exist?
Journalist Naomi Klein is in Paris covering the Climate Summit. She says if we're serious about climate change, we need to confront capitalism itself.
Dave Zirin may be the best young sportswriter in America. He's the author of "A People's History of Sports in the United States: 250 Years of Politics, Protest, People and Play."
Bill Welden, an expert on Tolkien’s Elvish languages, talks about Elvish derivations and vocabulary and remembers his visit to the set of the “The Lord of the Rings” movie.
Charles McGrath thinks comic books or graphic novels are becoming a legitimate art form that will probably continue to evolve.
In Connie Willis' world, historians can actually go to the past to study.
Jon Ronson's Dangerous Idea -- Can Too Much Christmas Drive Kids to Kill?
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