Lydia Millet

Smashing atoms and colliding worlds. We try to wrap our brains around the Large Hadron Collider, the world’s largest particle accelerator, which revs up this summer. Writer Lydia Millet imagines a quantum accident at the Collider in a story, read by Martha Plimpton. On the Lower East Side of Manhattan, two worlds collide violently in […]

Studio 360 wonders: could an enormous science project create the conditions for a black hole? We try to wrap our brains around the Large Hadron Collider, which just opened for business. Hear how rock n’ roll history owes a lot to a simple laundromat in New Orleans. Plus, live in the studio, the indie-soul sound […]

Studio 360 puts evolution to the test. 2009 is Darwin’s bicentennial, and this week marks 150 years since “On the Origin of Species” was published. Darwin’s descendant, Ruth Padel, writes poems about her famous relative. Spencer Wells gathers DNA around the world to determine where we came from. An amateur paleontologist finds a way to […]

Meet the $380 million dollar man. With its stunning 3-D effects, director James Cameron tells Kurt about the insane ambition and expense it took to complete his new movie “Avatar.” Billy Crystal and Rob Reiner recall the genius of Mel Brooks’ and Carl Reiner’s routine “The 2,000 Year Old Man.” What do Sharon Stone, Noam […]

Studio 360 puts evolution to the test. On the Origin of Species is 150 years old, but the work of Charles Darwin remains as influential as ever. Darwin’s descendant, Ruth Padel, writes poems about her famous relative. Spencer Wells gathers DNA around the world to determine where we came from. An amateur paleontologist finds a […]