Lee Smolin tells Steve Paulson about the debate in the blogosphere about string theory's failure to advance the field of physics beyond the accepted model.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Here's our final poem to share for this National Poetry Month, Jim reading Max Garland's "A Lesson in Love."
How will we react, the day we hear the news that scientists have found life on another planet? Science fiction writer Orson Scott Card has dreamed up many first contact scenarios. His classic science fiction novel, "Ender's Game" is all about the consequences of a first contact gone badly wrong. He's just published a long-awaited sequel.
Anne Carson doesn't call her work poetry. She says the best description is poesis, Greek for "making." A classics scholar, Carson is a translator, essayist and prolific forger of new literary forms.
Video game designer Jason Rohrer tells Anne Strainchamps about his game "Passage," which is about mortality, not just an adrenalin rush.
Randall Miller and Jody Savin wrote, directed and are distributing the 2008 Sundance Festival film, "Bottle Shock."
John J. Miller grew up on rock and roll and decided to compile a list of the 50 best conservative rock songs.
Max Decharne can tell you lots of things no one will understand any more. He's a "solid pigeon" and "a bit of a fly thing," as he tells Steve Paulson.
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