Engineer Bill Gurstelle loves things that go BOOM! Gurstelle tells Jim Fleming how to build and operate the Potato Cannon and a Roman catapult.
Engineer Bill Gurstelle loves things that go BOOM! Gurstelle tells Jim Fleming how to build and operate the Potato Cannon and a Roman catapult.
Writer Dan Chaon talks about his new book of non-supernatural ghost stories, "Stay Awake."
Doug Gordon profiles Cole’s notes, the Canadian inspiration for America’s CliffsNotes.
Tufts Medical School psychiatrist Daniel Carlat believes psychiatry is in crisis.
Charles Hartman collaborated with his computer to write poetry. He describes his experience in the book “Virtual Muse: Experiments in Computer Poetry.”
Chuck Taggart is the producer and compiler of a CD box set called “Doctors, Professors, Kings and Queens: The Big Ol’ Box of New Orleans.”
Gabe Hudson was a Marine Reservist whose unit served in the Gulf War. Hudson himself didn’t see combat, but based on his friends’ war stories, Hudson has written a book of surreal short stories.