Nelson Algren wrote “A Walk on the Wild Side” and won the first National Book Award for “The Man with the Golden Arm,” but was too gritty for most critics
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Physicist Ronald Mallet tells Anne Strainchamps why he thinks he can use light to bend the fabric of space and achieve time travel.
Elizabeth Lunbeck talks about her book, "The Americanization of Narcissism."
Salman Rushdie tells Steve Paulson that he loved the movie, “The Wizard of Oz” and that he sees it as a parable about home and homelessness.
Psychologist Alison Gopnik is changing the way we think about babies. Her lab at UC-Berkeley has found evidence of empathy and scientific thinking in children as young as 14 months.
Sean Carroll tells Steve Paulson about new discoveries in evolutionary history, including the existence and purpose of fossil genes.
Neuroscientists say that about a quarter of our mental energy is dedicated to maintaining our narrative identities. Julian Keenan says there's got to be an evolutionary benefit for all that "self".
Simon Wilde is one of the scientists who found a tiny, four billion year old zircon in Australia. He brought it to his colleague Joe Skullan at the University of Wisconsin and they established that it’s the oldest object on earth...
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