Doug Gordon reports on Gus Van Sant’s efforts to re-make the classic 1960 Alfred Hitchcock film, “Psycho.”
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Brian Greene is a physicist who specializes in string theory. Greene says that time appears to move in one direction only to complex organisms like people. At the atomic level, electrons don’t know one direction from another.
In this UNCUT interview, Katherine Boo talks about her much-lauded book, “Behind the Beautiful Forevers”.
Edward Hirsch tells Anne Strainchamps that the best artists have “duende” - a kind of creative imp that puts them in touch with human emotional experience.
Bill Vossler is the author of “Burma-Shave: The Rhymes, the Signs, The Times.” He talks about where the classic rhyming signs came from, and reads several examples.
Conn Iggulden wrote "The Dangerous Book for Boys" with his brother, Hal. The idea is not to injure children but to help them have more fun.
When Nikka Costa was ten, she was a pop sensation in Europe. Later, she was Britney Spear’s opening act. But she’s left pop music behind and now she’s performing songs by some of the musicians she’s known, including Prince and Frank Sinatra.
Carl Honore tells Jim Fleming that several countries have societies which promote a slower, more relaxed approach to life.
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