Craig Venter, who's come as close as anyone has to creating life in a test tube, tells Steve Paulson what drives him.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Bryandt Urstadt tells Steve Paulson about the grim future the peak oilers are already getting ready for and thinks we should all buy gold.
Eric Lax has had regular conversations with Woody Allen over the past 36 years which he's turned into a book called "Conversations with Woody Allen: His Films, the Movies and Moviemaking."
Literary theorist Terry Eagleton's Dangerous Idea? The humanities are dying.
If you had to pick one writer, one poet, who has persistently reminded us of the connection between inner and outer landscapes it would be Terry Tempest Williams. She's advocated again and again for the preservation of wild places and the importance of national wilderness through books like “Refuge,” “Desert Quartet,” “Finding Beauty in a Broken World” and “When Women Were Birds.” She'll soon be releasing a new book -- “The Hour of Land: A Personal Topography of America’s National Parks.”
Writer David Morris explains why "Solo Faces" by James Salter is one of his favorite books.
Debra Dickerson tells Steve Paulson she knows first hand that systemic racism still exists in America.
Dominique Browning tells Anne Strainchamps that after her divorce, she took a perverse pride in letting her house fall apart. Eventually, she came back to life and started taking care of things again.
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