The science world is buzzing about the discovery confirming the Big Bang. Here's our extended interview with Lawrence Krauss about how something could come from nothing.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Mark Anderson tells Steve Paulson that no single piece of evidence for Shakespeare's identity is conclusive, but all the funny coincidences "prove" his thesis.
Mikita Brottman tells Anne Strainchamps about her own accident, the legends that grow up around celebrity car crashes, and the odd thrill we get from road wrecks.
Jennifer Baker is a philosopher at the College of Charleston and the author of a recent essay called "Procrastination as Vice."
Robert Sullivan has driven across the United States some thirty times. He tells Jim Fleming how he does it, and what happened on the worst trip ever.
“The Unraveling of Mercy Louis" tells the fascinating story of a community that’s nearly torn apart following the discovery of an abandoned baby in a dumpster. A witch hunt ensures and the girls at a local high school soon begin developing mysterious twitches and tics, which quickly intensify. Eventually, the girls in the town are acting as if they’re possessed, thrashing around on the floor or grunting like animals. As strange as it all sounds, Parssinen says the book was inspired by a real episode of mass hysteria in Le Roy, New York.
Suppose you drank too much at that party last night and some embarrassing pictures of you got posted on Facebook. Do you have a right to delete them? In Europe, you now have that legal right. But Georgetown University's Meg Jones says Americans are still sorting out conflicting demands for privacy and free speech in the digital age.
John Wesley Harding is a singer/songwriter who regularly draws on his love of literature. So now, he’s turning his song “Miss Fortune” into a novel.
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