Anthony Zuiker, creator of "CSI", tells Steve Paulson that getting the science right in “CSI” is crucial; remembers how great it was when the Mob ran Las Vegas; and admits he’s the show’s gambling expert.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Writer Sam Kriss's Dangerous Idea? The "Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders" as satire.
Daniel Levitin runs McGill University's Laboratory for Musical Perception, Cognition and Expertise.
Azar Nafisi tells Steve Paulson about her weekly secret meetings with students to read forbidden Western literature.
Philosopher David Chalmers is famous for outlining the "hard problem of consciousness." In this EXTENDED INTERVIEW, he says the materialist framework of science will never be able to explain subjective experience - our thoughts and feelings, the expereince of joy or sorrow, self-awareness.
Historian Jill Lepore talks about her restless search for the long-lost manuscript, "The Oral History of Our Time." It ran some nine million words and was supposedly the work of a madman named Joe Gould, who believed he was the 20th century's most brilliant historian.
Jim Fleming and his wife spent a day in Paris being guided around the most fabulous chocolate shops by former Chez Panisse pastry chef, David Lebovitz.
Dr. Mark Clanton talks with Jim Fleming about new directions in cancer research and the new targeted treatment drugs.
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