Jon Ronson was assigned by The Guardian newspaper to find out how easy it would be to build a dirty bomb. So he did.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
Audio
Mikael Niemi is the author of “Popular Music from Vittula,” the single best-selling book in Swedish history.
Would you like to sharpen your memory? Science writer Joshua Foer tells you how to build an elaborate memory palace.
Jim Tucker is a child psychiatrist and director of the University of Virginia's project on children's memories of previous lives.
Filmmaker Astra Taylor believes our digital life is undemocratic -- that we're concentrating power into the hands of giant tech companies, who make money off our posts and tweet. She tells Anne Strainchamps why she believes there should be greater regulation of the Internet.
Nadine Svoboda’s been all over the world listening to forests. She records their sounds for the British Library Sound Archive.
John Landis talks about his new book, "Monsters in the Movies: 100 Years of Cinematic Nightmares."
Norwegian novelist Karl Ove Knausgaard discusses his six-volume autobiographical novel, "My Struggle."
You could also listen to an extended interview with Karl Ove Knausgaard.
Pages
