Karen Michel got to know her neighbors by asking them three questions about the meaning of life.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Robert Weinberg wrote “The Computers of Star Trek” with co-author Lois Gresh. Weinberg says that Star Trek was ambivalent about computers, and wildly inconsistent about how they worked.
Literary critics have deemed Laura van den Berg one of American's best new writers. Listen in as she talks about the roles of memory and forgetting in our lives, and in her debut novel, "Find Me."
Paul Campos is the author of “The Obesity Myth: Why America’s Obsession with Weight Is Hazardous to Your Health.”
Nicholas Harberd spent a year observing a thalecress in a country churchyard. He kept a diary.
Jonathan Harris created the website wefeelfine.org. He tells Steve Paulson how it works, and we hear a montage of postings from the site.
Keren David is a young adult author who has imagined just what living in the Witness Protection Program might mean.
Julia Alvarez talks about her novel for young adults, and how it mirrors her own experience reconciling a native Dominican background with the culture of her adopted home: a small town in rural Vermont.
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