If we think of cities as organisms, their DNA is the hodgepodge of rules that shape development. Urban planner Emily Talen talks about how city zoning, coding and laws got started, and how they need to be changed to help us build more livable cities.
Take a look at a visual archive of city plans.
Eric Nuzum writes a ghost story in the form of a memoir about growing up in a house he believed to be haunted by the ghost of a little girl in a blue dress. She stalked him.
Brian Price tells Anne Strainchamps how he came to prepare the last meals for some 200 inmates on Death Row in Texas prisons.
Keli Carender is a Tea Party activist – in fact, she was the very first Tea Party activist.
Corby Kummer tells Anne Strainchamps about French fleur de sel and it’s Portugese cousin flor de sal. They’re exotic and expensive gourmet sea salts that taste fabulous.
Writer Sam Kriss's Dangerous Idea? The "Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders" as satire.
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.
Dr. Mark Clanton talks with Jim Fleming about new directions in cancer research and the new targeted treatment drugs.
