Eula Biss recommends "The Argonauts" by Maggie Nelson.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Why do we sleep? No-one really knows, but neuro-scientist Bob Stickgold tells Jim Fleming about his ideas concerning sleep and why it’s important.
Coral reefs and many of the oceans' marvels may disappear before this century ends, according to a new scientific study. Science writer Elizabeth Kolbert says we're facing the sixth great extinction. She tells stories from the front lines of the fight against extinction, from Panama to Australia's Great Barrier Reef.
Daniel Tammett loves numbers, can do calculations in his head into the millions, and can recite pi to more than 22,000 digits. But he has trouble telling right from left and looking people in the eye.
He's produced albums for Nirvana, Smashing Pumpkins, Green Day and Foo Fighters. After decades in the business, Butch Vig says that new technologies are changing the music industry.
David Edmonds talks with Jim Fleming about Bobby Fischer’s infamous chess match with Boris Spassky for the World Chess Championship in 1972.
Tom Lutz talks about his book, "Doing Nothing: A History of Loafers, Loungers, Slackers, and Bums in America."
Nature writer David Quammen has written a book called “Monster of God.” It’s about man-eating predators. Quammen says that such beasts have often been worshiped but the habitats are being encroached on by development.
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