Paleontologist Simon Conway Morris talks with Steve Paulson about convergence and the evolution of intelligence.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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The Bad Plus is a hot young jazz trio that puts a jazz spin of rock classics from Nirvana and Black Sabbath.
Zach Helm wrote the screenplay for "Stranger than Fiction," in which Will Ferrell hears the voice of Emma Thompson apparently narrating his life.
Rudolph Bell tells Jim Fleming that Italian parents of 500 years ago had some very modern ideas about child rearing. And a few wacky ones about pre-determining the sex of your baby.
Tom Wolfe reads the opening to "The Postman Always Rings Twice" and explains why it's his favorite.
One of the most horrific episodes in American history occurred on December 29, 1890. The U.S. Cavalry surrounded an encampment of Lakota on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota and massacred some 300 people. The details of the carnage of the Wounded Knee Massacre are almost unbearable. As Black Elk, the Lakota medicine man who witnessed the massacre, put it, “Something else died there in the bloody mud, and was buried in the blizzard. A people’s dream died." This tragedy is the bleak backdrop for Jonis Agee's new novel, "The Bones of Paradise." Set 10 years after the Wounded Knee Massacre, all the characters in her novel - from white cattle ranchers to the Lakota - are wrestling with the ghosts of the massacre. Agee tells Steve Paulson about the origins of her novel.
Journalist Steve Volk believes the paranormal can be studied scientifically and explains why it's also a great subject for journalists. Also, a montage of movie clips about the paranormal.
A few years ago, Tamara Altman did what many of us dream of doing — she ditched a well-paying job in healthcare to travel all across the Pacific Northwest. How'd she finance the adventure? By freelancing in the on-demand economy.
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