Billie Whitelaw was Samuel Beckett’s favorite actress and appeared in his plays for over twenty years. She tells Steve Paulson she never understood the plays but thinks Beckett’s a genius.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Aubrey de Grey has identified seven categories of molecular and cellular damage. He says if we can prevent or repair that damage, there's no reason why people can't go on living indefinitely.
Carole Angier is the author of “”The Double Bond: Primo Levi, A Biography.” Levi was a brilliant chemist who mined the world of chemistry for metaphors to help him process his experiences as a Holocaust survivor
We've turned our hearts over to software; 30 million Americans have online dating profiles. About one-fifth of all new relationships in North America start with people meeting online.
So far, the algorithms don't seem to know much more than we do, about what we're looking for.
Erik Trinkaus tells Steve Paulson that many of our assumptions about them, and our other "cave man" ancestors are just plain wrong.
Charlotte Hays is co-author of "Being Dead Is No Excuse: The Official Southern Ladies Guide to Hosting the Perfect Funeral."
Dr. Ted Kaptchuk tells Steve Paulson about the work of some Danish researchers who have concluded that “the Placebo effect” is a myth.
Steve Paulson always dreamed of seeing ancient cave art. He finally got his wish - and tells the story of visiting two French caves with anthropologist Christine Desdemaines-Hugon.
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