Physicist Clifford Pickover talks with Steve Paulson about Magic Squares and why people get hooked on them.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Frans de Waal talks with Steve Paulson about the evidence demonstrating that animals have culture.
Cory Doctorow is a writer and digital activist who works to defend electronic freedom.
Bruce Campbell, (to his chagrin) still best known as “Ash” from “The Evil Dead” movies, talks with Jim Fleming about his memoir, “If Chins Could Kill: Confessions of a B Movie Actor.”
Criminologist Nils Christie's Dangerous Idea? Treat prisoners as people.
Ariel Levy tells Anne Strainchamps we are living in a Feminist’s nightmare.
Eric Lax has had regular conversations with Woody Allen over the past 36 years which he's turned into a book called "Conversations with Woody Allen: His Films, the Movies and Moviemaking."
Anne here. My conversation with Turkish writer Elif Şafak back in April still sticks with me as the year comes to a close. In many parts of the world, 2016 was the year of the populist leader—especially in Turkey, where Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan launched a crackdown on free speech and all forms of opposition. 120 journalists have been jailed, more than 2,000 academics have been dismissed from universities, and more than 100,000 public workers have been fired. How did Turkey—once a model of new democratic nations—become such a different place? Not only did Şafak see this coming, she warned that the West should not consider itself immune.
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