David Gilmour decided to let his son, Jesse, drop out of school, provided that he agree to watch three movies a week with his father. He talks about this experience.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Bill Hayes is the author of “Five Quarts: A Personal and Natural History of Blood.” Hayes tells Jim Fleming several nifty facts about the fluid that sustains us all.
Frederick Turner is the author of “1929: a Novel of the Jazz Age.” Turner reads from the book and talks with Steve Paulson about its central character, Bix Beiderbeck.
Brian Christian is the author of "The Most Human Human: What Talking with Computers Teaches Us About What It Means to Be Alive." In 2009, he won the annual Loebner Prize -- awarded to the computer program that comes closest to passing the Turing Test for artificial intelligence. Christian won for being the "most human human."
Eric Lax has had regular conversations with Woody Allen over the past 36 years which he's turned into a book called "Conversations with Woody Allen: His Films, the Movies and Moviemaking."
David Whyte tells Anne Strainchamps there’s always a way to find meaning at work.
With more than a billion Muslims in the world, many of whom supposedly hate the U.S., why haven't there been more terrorist attacks? Charles Kurzman says the important story about Muslim terrorism is how little of it there is.
Hiking. Fishing. Camping. What about using the parks for, well, being a bad ass. The documentary “Valley Uprising” tells the story of the rock climbers who have dared El Capitan – the 3000 foot granite wall of Yosemite National Park. Nick Rosen is the film’s director. He told Steve Paulson that the story starts back in the 1950s. Before climbing wall gyms. Before it was even legal to climb in Yosemite.
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