John Vaillant's book, "The Tiger", is about a rare Amur tiger who starts killing people in a remote corner of Siberia where there is a huge trade in tiger poaching because of demand in nearby China.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Theoretical physicist Michio Kaku thinks that nature is God's greatest creation.
Acclaimed novelist Colson Whitehead got the magazine assignment of a lifetime: a week in Vegas, playing in the World Series of Poker. He tells Doug Gordon about high stakes poker and his own "anhedonia," his difficulty experiencing pleasure.
Joseph Romm talks about how Iceland plans to become the first country in the world to become 100% independent of fossil fuels by using their boundless geothermal energy to create hydrogen cells to power their motor vehicles.
For most of us, pain is a sign of physical injury. Generally the pain fades as the injury heals. But for people with Behcet's Syndrom pain is a constant companion.
Jimmy Palmieri tells Anne Strainchamps about his practice of praying the pain away.
Sometimes making music new is as simple as adding a few new elements. For ground-breaking jazz composer Maria Schneider, that meant adding words to her work.
Animal behaviorist Patricia McConnell is the author of "For the Love of a Dog" and the host of the public radio program "Calling All Pets."
Columnist Maureen Dowd says that a lot of people still don’t understand that a columnist is supposed to have a point of view.
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