Derick Burleson won the Felix Pollack Prize for his collection of poems about Rwanda, called "Ejo."
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Brian Christian is the author of "The Most Human Human: What Talking with Computers Teaches Us About What It Means to Be Alive." In 2009, he won the annual Loebner Prize -- awarded to the computer program that comes closest to passing the Turing Test for artificial intelligence. Christian won for being the "most human human."
Daniel Cavicchi spent three years talking to his fellow Bruce Springsteen fans. The result is a book called “Tramps Like Us: Music and Meaning among Springsteen Fans.”
David Abram is an ecologist, anthropologist and philosopher, and author of "Becoming Animal."
This six minute short film sets a typical frat house scene with heightened visual intensity: beer pong, drunk girls, guys with their shirts off doing shots, hazing rituals, fights. The twist is that the guy at the center of the film is clearly attracted to one of his frat brothers.
Carel Van Schaik tells Steve Paulson that orangutans, those great red apes, use tools and pass learning down from one generation to the next.
More people than ever before in US history are living alone. And they're living lives of fullment and social engagement. Eric Klinenberg writes about the trend in "Going Solo: The Extraordinary Rise and Surprising Appeal of Living Alone."
Billy Collins has stepped down as America’s Poet Laureate, but he hasn’t stopped trying to make poetry more accessible and more widely read.
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