Michio Kaku and Jim Fleming have a grand time exploring levels of impossibility and why the impossible just takes longer.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Billy Collins reads the poem, "Reader," from his new collection of poems, "Aimless Love."
Robert Weinberg wrote “The Computers of Star Trek” with co-author Lois Gresh. Weinberg says that Star Trek was ambivalent about computers, and wildly inconsistent about how they worked.
Musharraf Ali Farooqi is the translator of "The Adventures of Amir Hamza" and "Hoshruba."
Richard Fortey tells Anne Strainchamps why he’s been a life-long fan of trilobites, ancient water creatures who swarmed the Earth millions of years before dinosaurs.
Does science have inherent limits? Physicist Marcelo Gleiser thinks so, and he says it's liberating to know that science can only give us an incomplete picture of reality.
Novelist Jim Crace believe current state of the world makes it all too easy to imagine a grim future.
Charles Monroe-Kane prepared a profile of singer/songwriter Neko Case, a country singer who's haunted by the American Dream.
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