Marc Abrahams, founder of the Ig-Nobel Prizes, says who this years winners are and that the purpose of the awards is to make people laugh, and then think.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Nicholas Carr recommends John Edward Huth's 2013 book, "The Lost Art of Finding Our Way," about how to use the natural world to navigate.
Suppose you drank too much at that party last night and some embarrassing pictures of you got posted on Facebook. Do you have a right to delete them? In Europe, you now have that legal right. But Georgetown University's Meg Jones says Americans are still sorting out conflicting demands for privacy and free speech in the digital age.
Open relationships are no vestige of the swinging seventies. Although we don't know how many people have opened up, sex-educator Tristan Taormino says that you probably know someone in an open relationships, you just might not know that you know.
Taormino tells Steve Paulson that there are myriad manifestations of "open..."
Robert Gottlieb and Robert Kimball tell Steve Paulson what makes a lyric work and that many of the great songs came from Broadway and Hollywood musicals.
Mitch Cantor is the founder of Gadfly Records, and dedicated to spreading the word about obscure, unique and offbeat projects. Cantor tells Steve Paulson about some of the artists he records.
Merian C. Cooper dreamed up the original "King Kong." Cooper was an Indiana Jones - type figure himself.
What will extraterrestrial life look like? Paul Davies thinks it might be stranger than you can imagine.
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