The Arik Korman Show

Cirque du Soleil VOLTA hair suspension artist Danila Bim explains how to train yourself to spin at high speed, how to take care of your hair so it can shoulder your entire body weight, and how to handle the physical and mental pressures of performing.

Animal science professor and autism spokesperson Temple Grandin discusses why kids should make things with their hands instead of play video games, shares what it's like to be a visual thinker, and unpacks our biggest misconceptions about autism. Dr. Grandin’s new book is Calling All Minds: How to Think and Create Like an Inventor.

World famous meditation teacher Bob Roth discusses whether Transcendental Meditation (TM) gives CEOs and Hollywood celebrities their creativity, demonstrates the difference between TM and mindfulness, and explains what a mantra is. His new book is Strength in Stillness: The Power of Transcendental Meditation. Follow him on Twitter @MeditationBob.

Writer Emily Dufton shares stories about the personalities involved in marijuana politics, makes a prediction on whether pot will be legalized in all 50 states, and reveals what she would say to her own son about marijuana. Emily's new book is Grass Roots: The Rise and Fall of Marijuana in America. She was in the Northwest to speak at University Lutheran Church, presented by Town Hall Seattle as p...

Legendary scientist Freeman Dyson talks about how to achieve a scientific breakthrough, what it was like being around science rockstars like Albert Einstein, and whether curiosity is important. Professor Dyson’s new book is Maker of Patterns: An Autobiography Through Letters. He was in the Northwest to speak at the Meydenbauer Center Theatre, presented by Town Hall Seattle and the Meydenbauer Cent...

Comedian Bo Burnham, writer and director of the new film Eighth Grade, and actor Elsie Fisher, star of Eighth Grade, talk about how schools can be less awkward, how parents can better connect with their teens, and whether Elsie suffered PTSD from having to re-experience her eighth grade year.

John Medina, University of Washington Affiliate Professor of Bioengineering and author of the bestselling Brain Rules book series, explains why teens behave the way they do, tells us how to build a school that will effectively educate them, and shows us the scientifically proven best way to parent teens. Dr. Medina’s newest book is Attack of the Teenage Brain: Understanding and Supporting The Weir...

Katherine Reynolds Lewis is an award-winning journalist based in the Washington, DC area who regularly writes for the Atlantic, Fortune, USA Today’s magazines, Washington Post, and Working Mother. Her story about school discipline was Mother Jones' most-read article ever, and she is a certified parent educator with the Parent Encouragement Program. Katherine’s new book is The Good News About Bad B...

Steve Coll is author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning book Ghost Wars and the dean of the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University. From 2007 to 2013, he was president of the New America Foundation, a public policy institute in Washington, DC. He is a staff writer for The New Yorker, and previously worked for twenty years at The Washington Post, where he received a Pulitzer Prize for expl...

Mokhtar Alkhanshali is a historian, community organizer, and coffee innovator, who envisions a world where industry empowers rather than exploits, uplifts rather than represses. Following his studies, he worked with some of the most respected civil rights and community organizations, including the ACLU and Asian Law Caucus. On several occasions, he’s been requested to partner with the city of San...

Tami Asars is a writer focused on outdoor recreation and a nature photographer, living in the Cascade foothills of Washington state with her husband, Vilnis and her rough collie, Scout. She is the author of Hiking the Wonderland Trail, Day Hiking Mount Adams and Goat Rocks, Hiking the Pacific Crest Trail: Washington, and the upcoming Day Hiking Mount Rainier, all published by Mountaineers Books. T...

Steven Pinker is the Harvard College Professor of Psychology at Harvard University. A two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist and the winner of many awards for his research, teaching, and books, he has been named one of Time's 100 Most Influential People and one of Foreign Policy’s 100 Leading Global Thinkers. His books include The Stuff of Thought, The Better Angels of Our Nature, The Blank Slate, and T...

Anya Kamenetz is the lead digital education correspondent for NPR. She has worked as a staff writer for Fast Company magazine, and has contributed to the New York Times, Washington Post, New York Magazine, Slate, and O, the Oprah Magazine. Anya has won multiple awards for her reporting on education, technology, and innovation. She is the author of three books on education and technology: Generatio...

Sang-Hee Lee is a professor of anthropology and associate dean of the college of humanities, arts, and social sciences at University of California Riverside. Her research is multidisciplinary in nature, bridging biology and anthropology. Her approach is focused on “excavating” new knowledge by rephrasing a question, redefining a concept, and developing innovative methods—all in ways that make it p...

Charlie Lybecker is the co-founder and winemaker of Cairdeas Winery. Cairdeas is an ancient Gaelic word meaning friendship, goodwill, or alliance. Cairdeas is a very small artisan winery started in 2009 by Charlie and his wife, Lacey. Info at CairdeasWinery.com Cairdeas Winery is featured at Taste Washington, celebrating 21 years of talented winemakers, award-winning chefs, educational seminars an...

Amy Chua is the John M. Duff, Jr. Professor at Yale Law School. She is a noted expert in the fields of ethnic conflict and globalization, and the author of the bestselling books World on Fire: How Exporting Free Market Democracy Breeds Ethnic Hatred and Global Instability, Day of Empire: How Hyperpowers Rise to Global Dominance—and Why They Fall, Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, and The Triple Pac...

Robert Reich is Chancellor’s Professor of Public Policy at the Goldman School of Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley. He has served in three national administrations and has written fifteen books, including The Work of Nations, which has been translated into twenty-two languages, and the best sellers Saving Capitalism, Supercapitalism, and Locked in the Cabinet. His articles ha...

Nadine Burke Harris is a passionate advocate for children’s health, with four boys of her own. She is the founder and CEO of the Center for Youth Wellness in San Francisco’s Bayview Hunters Point. She is the subject of a New Yorker profile and the recipient of a Heinz Award. Her TED talk, “How Childhood Trauma Affects Health Across the Lifetime” has been viewed over three million times. Dr. Burke...

David Cay Johnston is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter and bestselling author of The Making of Donald Trump. He has lectured on economics, journalism, and tax policy on every continent except Antarctica, and is a former president of Investigative Reporters & Editors. He teaches at Syracuse University College of Law. David has been a frequent guest on MSNBC, CNN, the BBC, ABC World N...

Award-winning American tenor Ben Bliss has been singing professionally since his 2011 debut with the Los Angeles Opera, and has performed with world-class companies and in recital throughout the US and in Europe. He was a young artist at the LA Opera and the Metropolitan Opera, and first became exposed to the operatic art form while watching his mother sing in the chorus of the Kansas City Lyric O...

Dr. Eliezer Sternberg is a resident neurologist at Yale-New Haven Hospital. He has a background in neuroscience and philosophy, and is interested in how brain research can unlock the mysteries of consciousness and decision-making. Dr. Sternberg is the author of three books, including Are You a Machine?, My Brain Made Me Do It, and most recently NeuroLogic: The Brain's Hidden Rationale Behind Our I...

Eugenia Cheng was tenured in the School of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Sheffield in the United Kingdom, and is the Scientist in Residence at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Since 2007, her YouTube videos explaining mathematical concepts have been viewed more than 8 million times. Dr. Cheng is a trained concert pianist and trilingual in French, English and Mandarin....

Singer/songwriter Trevor Hall was raised on an island in South Carolina, where he realized at a young age that music was more than just a passion - it was, rather, his life’s art. Trevor’s music, a blend of roots and folk music, is filled with a deep love of Eastern Mysticism. Along with numerous pilgrimages to India, he has also completed a series of sold-out tours and collaborations with artists...

Andy Weir built a two-decade career as a software engineer, until the success of his first published novel, The Martian, allowed him to live out his dream of writing full-time. He is a lifelong space nerd and a devoted hobbyist of such subjects as relativistic physics, orbital mechanics, and the history of manned spaceflight. He also mixes a mean cocktail. Andy’s new novel is Artemis. See him in t...

Harley Jessup is a production designer and visual effects art director, who joined Pixar Animation Studios in 1996 as production designer for “Monsters, Inc.” His other Pixar production design credits include the Academy Award-winning feature “Ratatouille,” the Golden Globe-nominated “Cars2” and “The Good Dinosaur.” As production designer, Harley leads a team of Pixar artists, designing the settin...