From his home in Mexico City, Guillermo Arriaga tells Steve Paulson where the story idea for “21 Grams” came from, and why it was so interesting to have a religious man direct a film written by an atheist that deals with topics like the meaning of life and the afterlife.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Geoffrey Colvin says that great performance is within the grasp of anyone who's willing to put in the right kind of practice.
Harriet Brown reads an essay describing her experience discovering her daughter had anorexia.
George Saunders talks about his new short-story collection, "Tenth of December."
Naturalist Gretel Ehrlich tells Steve Paulson why she visited at length with Inuit people in Greenland.
Although people have long been curious about the experience of death, the science of the question is still relatively young.
Dutch cardiologist Pim van Lommel is one of the leading near death experience researchers. He says all this time studying death has got him curious about his own end.
Genesis P-Orridge is a conceptual artist who calls himself a cultural engineer. He was born male but is re-inventing himself as a "pandrogyne," or hermaphrodite by choice.
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