Annie Duke won the 2006 World Series of Poker, and knows a thing or two about luck vs. skill. In this interview, she talks about how her poker knowledge can translate to other aspects of life.
European leaders are once again trying to hash out an agreement with Greece to resolve its debt crisis. If a deal isn’t reached, Greece could leave, or be removed from, the Eurozone. That could ...
A new novel from Benjamin Percy is a reason to keep the lights on; nobody writes fear the way he does. His latest is The Dead Lands, a wilderness story with a twist: it's set in a post...
At 27, Ronda Rousey might be one of the best pound-for-pound mixed martial artists fighting today. Boasting an undefeated MMA record, she’s blown through her competition, winning a majority of her...
One hundred years ago, Fritz Haber invented the first chemical weapon and convinced the German army to use it. His wife Clara, also a chemist, fiercely opposed her husband's project. When she...
Steve Young has been a writing for David Letterman since 1990, but on one fact-finding mission for the segment "Dave's Record Collection," Young discovering an entirely forgotten genre...
At age 17, Claressa Shields won Olympic gold in women's middleweight boxing, and hoped that would be a start of sponsorship deals, recognition, and success. But that hasn't happened yet.
Pioneering performance artist Chris Burden died of malignant melanoma Sunday morning, May 10th. Though he was never a guest on our show, his pioneering and challenging art came up in a conversation...
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