Jayne Anne Phillips is the author of several novels and two collections of widely anthologized short stories...
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Kent Walker is the son of Sante Kimes, who is currently incarcerated for the murder of a New York woman. Walker is the author of a memoir called “Son of A Grifter.”
If evolution is a game called survival of the fittest, how do you explain altruism? The “altruism equation” is a mathematical rule discovered by George Price...
Jill Sprecher is an optimist while her sister Karen is a pessimist. Or is it the other way around? Jill directed “Thirteen Conversations About One Thing” while Karen wrote the screenplay.
Lisa Tucker tells Anne Strainchamps that she thinks the songs that get stuck in our brains reveal a lot about us.
What are the basic buildings blocks of the universe? Some physicists now say they're not subatomic particles or even the laws of physics, but information itself. Physicist Paul Davies explains.
Marcel Danesi tells Steve Paulson why it’s dangerous for a culture when its members forsake maturity and wisdom in favor of a search for eternal youth.
Peter Cordani is CEO of Dyn-O-Mat. He invents things. Like Dyn-O-Storm - a polymer gel that can be sprayed on clouds to make them go away.
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