Steve Paulson talks with Stephen Hawking's co-author, Caltech physicist Leonard Mlodinow about how they wrote the book and what it really says, and doesn't say.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Michael Mandelbaum talks with Jim Fleming about the similarities between sports and warfare and religion.
Literary critics have deemed Laura van den Berg one of American's best new writers. Listen in as she talks about the roles of memory and forgetting in our lives, and in her debut novel, "Find Me."
John Leland tells Steve Paulson that "On the Road" is still exciting and that it holds many lessons about friendship and growing up.
Professor of Christian philosophy Nancey Murphy tells Steve Paulson Christians would be better off without the soul.
Mimi Sheraton, a travel writer, went to the Polish town of Bialystock to find the origins of her favorite bread from childhood, the bialy. It’s a crusty onion roll invented by the Jews.
Karen Michel got to know her neighbors by asking them three questions about the meaning of life.
Nicholas Harberd spent a year observing a thalecress in a country churchyard. He kept a diary.
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