Biologist and science writer David Bainbridge tells Steve Paulson that a prolonged adolescence is unique to humans and one of our greatest evolutionary advantages.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Christa Weil talks about eating national dishes like putrefied shark meat and her curious experience eating blow fish in Japan.
Clayton Eshleman is a poet who’s turned his poetic sensibility loose on the paleolithic cave drawings at Lascaux in France. He talks about these drawings represent shamanic spirit journeys and rituals.
Ever heard of gold-farming? Cory Doctorow talks about some ways people get ahead in multi-player video games.
Poet Billy Collins bookmarks "The Strange Last Voyage of Donald Crowhurst."
Apostolos Doxiadis tells Judith Strasser about his novel “Uncle Petros and Goldbach’s Conjecture,” in which a man becomes obsessed with solving a mathematical proof.
Drew Gilpin Faust's latest book, This Republic of Suffering, explores one of the most sobering aspects of the Civil War: its colossal death toll.
Is Marina Chapman's story true? Telegraph reporter Philip Sherwell traveled to Colombia to check on her remarkable story.
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