Oliver Sacks: Hallucinations KCRW: "Oliver Sacks on the neuropsychology and literature of hallucination, and what this disorienting medical condition reveals about the nature of the mind and human condition." Read on

The Physics of Wall Street WNYC: "James Weatherall talks about why many of the mathematicians and software engineers on Wall Street failed when their abstractions turned ugly in practice, and looks at a special breed of physicists with a deep history of revolutionizing finance. He shows how physicists successfully brought their science to bear on some of the thorniest problems in economics, from options pricing to bubbles in The Physics of Wall Street: A Brief History of Predicting the Unpredictable." Read on

Jared Diamond WBUR: "Pulitzer Prize-winning geographer Jared Diamond got the world’s attention and made us think big with “Guns, Germs, and Steel,” his blockbuster book on the fate of nations. Now he’s out with another big take on how humans live and die." Read on

Nassim Nicholas Taleb (Video) "Nassim Nicholas Taleb, author of Fooled by Randomness and The Black Swan, talking about his new book Antifragile: Things That Gain From Disorder."