Chuck Taggart is the producer and compiler of a CD box set called “Doctors, Professors, Kings and Queens: The Big Ol’ Box of New Orleans.”
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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David Bainbridge tells Steve Paulson that as soon as a woman becomes pregnant, the baby begins to dominate her biology, causing significant changes in her immune system.
DBC Pierre won this year’s Booker Prize for his novel, “Vernon God Little.” Pierre reads from the book and talks about it and about his own tangled past.
What if you could take a pill or download netware to supercharge your brain? Physicist Michio Kaku says augmented intelligence and memory playback systems are the future of brain science.
"The Angriest Man in the World", also known as "The Winnebago Man".
We've turned our hearts over to software; 30 million Americans have online dating profiles. About one-fifth of all new relationships in North America start with people meeting online.
So far, the algorithms don't seem to know much more than we do, about what we're looking for.
“Advances in resuscitation science are beginning to challenge our understanding of what death really is,” says Sam Parnia. He's the director of cardiopulmonary resuscitation research at SUNY NY. Parnia says it's now possible to bring people back to life much longer after cardiac arrest than medicine had previously thought.
For eight years Anu Garg has been sending e-mail to a half million people in two hundred countries around the world, but it's not spam. It's "A Word a Day," a message with a definition, the word's etymology and an example of how to use it.
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