Joe Garden is features editor at the satirical newspaper, "The Onion." He tells Jim Fleming the campaign season was a great one for comedy, but it went on way too long.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Loren Coleman talks to Steve Paulson about sea monsters. He even weighs in on the reality of the Loch Ness Monster.
Kevin Kelly tells Jim Fleming that the sum total of our technology - what he calls “the technicum” - is taking on the properties of life itself.
Historian Rebecca Spang tells Judith Strasser that "restaurant" originally meant a cup of broth and explains how it evolved into the culinary paradise we know today.
John Pollack collected well over a hundred thousand wine corks and used them to build a replica of a Viking ship which he then sailed in Portugal.
Miles Hyman is Shirley Jackson's grandson. He's an artist who specializes in graphic novels and adaptations of classic literature. His latest book has a lot of personal meaning for him. It's a graphic adaptation of his grandmother's most famous short story, "The Lottery." Hyman talks about how and why he took on this challenging task.
Journalist Neil Strauss tells Steve Paulson about the two years he spent with a group of pick up artists - men who share techniques about how to charm women.
Richard Holmes is fascinated by what he calls "The Age of Wonder." The subtitle of his book is "how the romantic generation discovered the beauty and the terror of science," and he tells Steve Paulson about how Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein" came directly out of the scientific climate of the time.
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