TTBOOK Technical Director Caryl Owen files this report on Ray Turner, a.k.a. The Eel Man, and proprietor of Delaware Delicacies Smoke House.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Marc Abrahams, founder of the Ig-Nobel Prizes, says who this years winners are and that the purpose of the awards is to make people laugh, and then think.
Is the melting of the Polar Ice cap in the Arctic destroying the habitat for polar bears and the seals they eat?
Merian C. Cooper dreamed up the original "King Kong." Cooper was an Indiana Jones - type figure himself.
Michael Shermer explains why he and like-minded scientific people don’t think much of Mark Vicente's film, “What the Bleep Do We Know”.
Lisa Tucker’s latest novel is “Shout Down the Moon.” She talks with Jim Fleming about the role of social class in her work.
What's it like to win a MacArthur "genius" award? Fiction writer Karen Rusell tells Anne Strainchamps about the day she heard the news, and talks about her special blend of fantasy and realism in her short stories.
Buddhist monk Matthieu Ricard has been called "the happiest man in the world." He shares a few thoughts on finding resilience in a crazy world.
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