Groundbreaking theoretical physicist Lee Smolin weighs in on creative problem solving in physics. Some advice that has served him? Start fresh every ten years.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Looking for a spring read? If you've got a taste for Scandinavian crime fiction, Jens Lapidus's "Easy Money" might satisfy. In this NEW and UNCUT interview, Lapidus tells Steve Paulson that he sees himself as the anti-Stieg Larsson. A movie based on the novel is due to be released this summer. Enjoy!
Patrick Hennessey tells Jim Fleming about his war service in Iraq and Afghanistan and the role that books played in his life as a soldier.
Jonah Lehrer talks about his new book, "Imagine: How Creativity Works."
In this final segment, we take a left turn to punk.
Richard Hell co-founded the band Television in the mid-70s. He also created a look and sound that would eventually be called “punk.”
Mike Hoyt talks with Steve Paulson about an e-mail by a Wall Street Journal correspondent that created a furor within the journalistic community about the role and responsibility of embedded reporters.
The State Department used jazz musicians as a weapon in the cold war to win hearts and minds in the Third World. Louis Armstrong, Dizy Gillespie, Duke Ellington and Dave Brubek were among the so-called "jazz ambassadors."
Joyce Carol Oates talks with Jim Fleming about some of the stories in her book “Faithless: Tales of Transgression.”
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