Artist Neil Harbisson was born greyscale colorblind. He says he liked seeing only in shades of black and white, but he still wanted to experience color. So he developed an implant that would help him hear colors well beyond the normal human spectrum, from ultraviolet to infrareds.
In this extended conversation, Neil talks about the art he makes with his new sense, and about the challenges of living cyborg.
If the mall-as-temple turns you off, you may be ready for Reverend Billy and the Church of Stop Shopping.
David Hughes tells Jim Fleming some of the reasons why a script might never get made into a film.
Jennifer Jacquet recommends "Last Chance to See" by Douglas Adams and Mark Carwardine.
Long before the Occupy movement made headlines, writer Dean Bakopoulos foreshadowed it in a darkly comic novel called My American Unhappiness.
Cory Doctorow is a writer and digital activist who works to defend electronic freedom.
Criminologist Nils Christie's Dangerous Idea? Treat prisoners as people.
Christine Kenneally tells Steve Paulson that Noam Chomsky thought language was hard-wired in the human brain, but later researchers have shown that its development is even more complex.
