Myhrvold talks about inventing and his six-volume, 2400-page, 52 pound cookbook called Modernist Cuisine.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Robert Marshall says that the late Carlos Castaneda was a literary trickster who invented most of the teachings of Don Juan which made him famous in the sixties.
Paleo-anthropologist John Hawks talks about how we continue to evolve--changes that can be seen in the bones of modern humans.
The WPA built 650 thousand miles of highways and employed 8 and a half million people. We explore its legacy
This week we mourn the death of Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Here's his English translator, Edith Grossman.
Lada Adamic is one of a host of data scientists working at facebook. Anne Strainchamps wanted to know what all those sociologists are up to.
Check out Facebook's social science website.
Randy Olson is a Harvard-trained evolutionary biologist and creator of the documentary film "Flock of Dodos."
Depression can mean two things: a downturn in the economy and an illness of the psyche.
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