"Ghostwalk" is an intellectual thriller set partly in Isaac Newton's time and concerning his interest in alchemy.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Rachel Boynton's film, "Our Brand is Crisis" follows the efforts of an American political consulting firm which became involved in the Bolivian presidential election.
Feminist film critic Molly Haskell talks about how Hollywood has treated the subject of writer’s block, and we hear clips from “Adaptation” and “Barton Fink.”
Nobody writes a dystopia quite the way Margaret Atwood does. In this EXTENDED conversation about MaddAddam - and a whole lot more - Atwood talks about utopia and dystopia, and the inherent optimism of all authors.
Nathaniel Lachenmeyer tells Jim Fleming about the history of our suspicion that 13 is an “unlucky” number.
Physicist Joel Primack and Nancy Abrams tell Steve Paulson how humanity has moved back into the center of our myth-making.
Writer and activist Linda Tirado has lived a lot of shabby apartments over the years. She's dealt with greedy landlords, flooded apartments and bug infestations. As she writes in her memoir "Hand To Mouth: Living In Bootstrap America," substandard housing is just a fact of life when you're part of the working poor in America.
Jonathan Margolis talks with Jim Fleming about some of the innovations futurologists are predicting for us all, from ear stud cell phones to on-line vacations and cybersex.
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