Steven Kaplan is a historian of bread. He’s famous in France as the American who told them their bread wasn’t good enough.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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In this EXTENDED and UNCUT interview, Sarah Lewis talks about the upside of failure.
Susan Mello, the 2003 Build A Better Burger Grand Prize winner, tells Anne about “My Big Fat Greco-Inspired Burger,” and why it deserved to win.
Maybe people 30,000 years ago weren't so different from us. That's one of Werner Herzog's takeaways from seeing the ancient paintings in Chauvet Cave. The renowned filmmaker describes his own experience of awe when he encountered this prehistoric art.
City planner and urban historian Tom Martinson tells Steve Paulson why the suburbs are a great place to live.
British novelist Will Self has written some very strange books. His latest is called “How the Dead Live.”
Terry Gross has been the host of the public radio program Fresh Air for over twenty years. She remembers some of her career highlights with Steve Paulson.
If you've spent any time playing Tetris, you've probably spent a lot of time playing it. Tetris is simple yet addictive. Your job is to fit falling geometric blocks together so that there are no spaces between them. Box Brown has spent alot of time playing and thinking about Tetris. He's written and illustrated a graphic history of the world's most popular video game. It turns out that Tetris has a fascinating backstory.
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