British novelist Nick Hornby has written a funny book about suicide. It's called "A Long Way Down."
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Michael Dickinson tells Jim Fleming about the robotic fly he’s building. Dickinson thinks flies are amazingly sophisticated flying machines.
Margaret Atwood tells Steve Paulson that it's a mistake to think about debt as simply a matter of money.
Optical Physicists at the Imperial College in London have created blueprints for the perfect hiding place.
Who was the real Henry David Thoreau? He wasn't exaclty an environmentalist, and "Walden" didn't simply describe his time living by the pond. Jeffrey Cramer looks at the man behind the myth.
What is normal? "Normal" is a social construct, not a medical one and society should learn to embrace diversity.
You know poems can be different things to different people: solace, a call to action, beauty. A reflection on war. But to Rae Armantrout there’s one thing that all poetry should be - read out loud.
Steve Paulson introduces us to Mark Oliver Everett, better known as "E" - lead singer of the Eels, and son of Hugh Everett, the man who came up with the theory of parallel worlds.
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