Karen Russell bookmarks "A High Wind in Jamaica," by Richard Hughes.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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It’s 2055, a regular weekday morning… Where do you wake up? With a booming population and more people moving into urban areas, chances are you’d be living in a city. But what might that city look like?
Mitchell Joaquim is an architect, and one of the founders of the innovative design group, TerreForm1.
Mindless Eating author and Ithaca native, Brian Wansink, cleans his plate on stage with Michael.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon tells Jim Fleming that his recent books are part of a sort of Chinese box set of four inter-related novels involving the same characters and his native city of Barcelona.
Daniel Levitin runs McGill University's Laboratory for Musical Perception, Cognition and Expertise.
Madison, Wisconsin, which recently saw a new type of leaderless social media revolution in full bloom.
Charles Taylor was convicted of mass murder, rape, and sexual slavery, among other crimes this week by the ICC. One of his top warlords, infamous for using child soldiers, is seeking redemption. Listen to this NEW and UNCUT interview about General Butt Naked.
Philosopher David Chalmers is famous for outlining the "hard problem of consciousness." In this EXTENDED INTERVIEW, he says the materialist framework of science will never be able to explain subjective experience - our thoughts and feelings, the expereince of joy or sorrow, self-awareness.
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