Did you hear about our sci-fi short fiction contest? If you want some inspiration, here's Junot Diaz on why he's a big sci-fi fan.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Moustafa Bayoumi talks with Jim Fleming about how 9/11 caused him to feel like an outsider in his own country.
Richard Dawkins is an eminent biologist at Oxford University and one of the world's most famous atheists.
John Updike is celebrated as a novelist but is also an essayist and art critic.
Earlier this year, the 14th Dalai Lama of Tibet handed over the last of his political power, to a secular, Harvard-educated politician. Lobsang Sangay left his fellowship and family in the United States to take up his new post, and all of its challenges.
If your mind is nothing more than brain chemistry, do you have free will? Neuroscientist Michael Gazzaniga says new brain science should change our thinking about this old philosophical question.
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Justin O. Schmidt has been stung by nearly every insect with a stinger, from the benign honeybee to the viscious tarantula hawk wasp. He is a research biologist and professor at the University of Arizona school of Entomology and he told Steve Paulson about his creation, the Schmidt Sting Pain Index.
Joseph Persico talks about his book “Roosevelt’s Secret War.” Persico explains how the attack on Pearl Harbor prodded FDR to launch America’s first real intelligence network.
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