David Grinspoon is the author of “Lonely Planets: The Natural Philosophy of Alien Life.”
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Candacy Taylor is an award-winning photographer, writer and visual artist.
Doug Gordon reports on Gus Van Sant’s efforts to re-make the classic 1960 Alfred Hitchcock film, “Psycho.”
Charles Mann tells Steve Paulson how there got to be two Bayer companies making aspirin; how it was marketed in South America, and what makes Anacin different from aspirin.
TTBOOK producer Doug Gordon attempts to interview Chris Murphy and Patrick Pentland of the Halifax Indie band Sloan.
Edward Hirsch tells Anne Strainchamps that the best artists have “duende” - a kind of creative imp that puts them in touch with human emotional experience.
If we think of cities as organisms, their DNA is the hodgepodge of rules that shape development. Urban planner Emily Talen talks about how city zoning, coding and laws got started, and how they need to be changed to help us build more livable cities.
Take a look at a visual archive of city plans.
Eric Nuzum writes a ghost story in the form of a memoir about growing up in a house he believed to be haunted by the ghost of a little girl in a blue dress. She stalked him.
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