Eoin Colfer is the author of the Artemis Fowl books. There are five of them now. The latest on is called "The Lost Colony."
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Media theorist Douglas Rushkoff's Dangerous Idea? We need to reclaim time.
Father Thomas Keating is considered by some people one of the world's greatest living mystics.
Christopher O'Riley chats with Jim Fleming about classical music's image problem among young people and how he makes the music seem cool.
Engineer Bill Gurstelle loves things that go BOOM! Gurstelle tells Jim Fleming how to build and operate the Potato Cannon and a Roman catapult.
Doug Quin is trying to help us tune certain sounds in, sounds we don't consider worth hearing -- from the sound of a spider sucking blood from an insect to the sound of a tree falling in a forest.
Brian Christian is the author of "The Most Human Human: What Talking with Computers Teaches Us About What It Means to Be Alive." In 2009, he won the annual Loebner Prize -- awarded to the computer program that comes closest to passing the Turing Test for artificial intelligence. Christian won for being the "most human human."
British comedian Dave Gorman decided to meet as many of the people who share his name as possible. His hobby turned into a hit one-man stage show and a book called “Are You Dave Gorman?”
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