Novelist Christopher Miller's debut novel "Sudden Noises from Inanimate Objects" takes the form of liner notes for a box set by a fictional musician.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Danny Gregory tells Jim Fleming that film-strips became popular around the time of the second world war and were used for industrial training and in public schools.
Colin Meloy likes to lose himself in music. He’s the songwriter and lead singer of a band called The Decemberists.
David Galenson talks to Steve Paulson about his theory that most artists are either old masters like Cezanne or young geniuses like Picasso.
Media theorist Douglas Rushkoff talks about his new book, "Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now."
Engineer Bill Gurstelle loves things that go BOOM! Gurstelle tells Jim Fleming how to build and operate the Potato Cannon and a Roman catapult.
Brian Christian is the author of "The Most Human Human: What Talking with Computers Teaches Us About What It Means to Be Alive." He tells Steve Paulson why he decided to compete in the annual Turing competition, not for the most human computer, but for the "most human human."
Research and experiments on time travel being done by some of the world's leading theoretical physicists and David Toomey is here to tell us about it.
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