Professional bladesmith Richard Furrer tells Jim Fleming about “Dragonslayer,” a blade forged from ultra-strong steel created with the help of a Northwestern University computer model.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Economist E. Glen Weyl has invented a market-driven voting system that he believes is much fairer and more democratic than one-vote-per-person majority rule. It's called Quadratic Voting and it starts with giving everyone a bunch of tokens, or chips, along with a simple mathematical formula for voting.
Noam Chomsky may be America's most prominent radical intellectual. An outspoken critic of U.S. foreign policy, he says the mainstream media simply won't acknowledge his political perspective.
Max Decharne can tell you lots of things no one will understand any more. He's a "solid pigeon" and "a bit of a fly thing," as he tells Steve Paulson.
Video game designer Jason Rohrer tells Anne Strainchamps about his game "Passage," which is about mortality, not just an adrenalin rush.
Biographer Robert Caro tells the remarkable story of how Lyndon Johnson became president after being humiliated as vice-president by John and Robert Kennedy.
Joshua Ferris talks about his novel, "To Rise Again at a Decent Hour," which made the longlist for The Man Booker Prize.
California surgeon Leonard Schlain tells Steve Paulson that ancestral women made the connection between sex and birth and the moon and discovered time.
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