Doug Gordon profiles Cole’s notes, the Canadian inspiration for America’s CliffsNotes.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Aubrey de Grey has identified seven categories of molecular and cellular damage. He says if we can prevent or repair that damage, there's no reason why people can't go on living indefinitely.
Chris Turner is the author of “Planet Simpson: How A Carton Masterpiece Defined A Generation.”
When and how did American get so polarized? For answers, Jonathan Chait recommends reading "What Hath God Wrought," a history of American politics from 1815-1848 by the Pulitzer prize-winning historian Daniel Walker Howe.
Thomas Hardy's biographer tells Steve Paulson how his wife's death transformed the rest of Hardy's life.
Most young men during the Vietnam era faced a choice, whether or not to be drafted into the US Armed Forces. For Jim Fleming, and his friends Robert Cardinaux and Mark Peterson, the chose to become Conscientious Objectors. They worked together in alternative service as psychiatric aides.
We are part of an immensely creative universe. Cosmologist Brian Swimme and Religion scholar Mary Evelyn Tucker explain.
Jon Ronson believes capitalism favors psychopaths and is creating more of them.
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