How Shows Like 'Will & Grace' And 'Black-ish' Can Change Your Brain
Go ahead, use this article to justify binge-watching Orange Is the New Black all weekend.
Arts & Life
Oliver Sacks: A Neurologist At The 'Intersection Of Fact And Fable'
The neurologist, who died Sunday, saw "infinitely moving, dramatic, romantic situations" during his decades studying the human brain. Fresh Air remembers Sacks with two interviews from 1985 and 2012.
Truth Is Strange And Fiction Is Charming In 'Girl Waits With Gun'
Amy Stewart's new novel is inspired by the real-life tale of the Kopp sisters, three women who faced down a cruel factory owner after he crashed into their buggy and refused to pay restitution.
Ursula K. Le Guin Steers Her Craft Into A New Century
The famed novelist says that at 85 she no longer has the energy to write another book, but she's just released a revised and updated edition of her manual for aspiring writers, Steering the Craft.
An Aerobatics Pilot Spins (And Rolls, And Loops) A Career From A Crash
Award-winning aviator Patty Wagstaff tackles the extreme, but she was inspired by a simple takeoff gone wrong. Crawling out of the plane, she looked at her pilot and thought, "I can do a lot better."
Self-Help Author And Speaker Wayne Dyer Dies At 75
Many of his fans saw Dyer's own life story — he grew up an orphan in Detroit — as proof of the power of his ideas.
German Filmmaker Wim Wenders Sums Up His Work In One Word
That word is "searchers." Wenders says, "If you look at the history of filmmaking, most great filmmakers actually were working on one story for all their lives."
Attention White-Collar Workers: The Robots Are Coming For Your Jobs
The machines have long been used in manufacturing, but Martin Ford, author of Rise of the Robots, says they're now poised to replace humans as teachers, lawyers and even journalists.
The Glimmering Sheen Of A Wide World Seen From Inside A Bubble
The teen heroine of Nicola Yoon's debut novel, Everything, Everything, has a disorder that bars her from leaving her house. Still, her world is vast, filled with writings, drawings — and new love.
A Young Woman Goes 'Underground In Berlin' To Escape The Holocaust
Hermann Simon's mother lived as a Jew in Berlin during World War II. Through cunning and disguise, Marie Jalowicz Simon managed to evade the Nazis right under their noses.