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The Atomic Bazaar: The Rise of the Nuclear Poor
William Langewiesche - The Colbert Report May 14th 2007
Scary interview about the proliferation of nuclear technologies throughout the world. Author gave a somber outlook on small organizations obtaining or manufacturing nuclear devices.

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1 year ago
List : The Colbert Report
Tags: atomic, nuclear

On Royalty: A Very Polite Inquiry Into Some Strangely Related Families
Jeremy Paxman - The Daily Show May 14th 2007
A very off beat interview as Stewart was being very critical of the English Royal Family. Paxman seemed rather annoyed. The book sounds very interesting for learning about the inner workings of royal families through the ages.

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1 year ago
List : The Daily Show
Tags: english royalty, monarchy

Almost Human: Making Robots Think
Lee Gutkind - The Daily Show May 7th 2007
John Stewart seemed unimpressed with the current state of the robot development but also seemed fancinated with the roles of robots in soceity.

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1 year ago
List : The Daily Show
Tags: artificial intelligence, robots

The Dangerous Book for Boys
Hal Iggulden - The Colbert Report May 3rd 2007
Iggulden writes that little boys need to live on the edge a little bit and do some dangerous things so they take their licks as a kid and learn from this behavior. Seems kinda obvisious to me and surprised people need a book to learn this.

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1 year ago
List : The Colbert Report
Tags: childhood development

Off Camera: Private Thoughts Made Public
Ted Koppel - The Daily Show May 3rd 2007
Ted Koppel was on the show promote a new series that he created for the Discovery Channel called "Living with Cancer." The clips from the show looked great and I'll be making sure that I Tivo it.

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1 year ago
List : The Daily Show
Tags: cancer, ted koppel

Rethinking Thin: The New Science of Weight Loss--and the Myths and Realities of Dieting
Gina Kolata - The Colbert Report May 02 2007
Kolata discusses writes and discusses how people need to rethink the practice of diet. I never really got a sense of what the book was really about from the interview.

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1 year ago
List : The Colbert Report
Tags: diet, health

Suicide Killers
Pierre Rehov - The Daily Show May 02 2007
Very disturbing documentary that tries to explain some of the logic (or lack there of) in suicide bombers. Pierre interviewed numerous unsuccessful bombers that were caught before being able to detonate their devices. Stated that things will get... read more

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1 year ago
List : The Daily Show
Tags: terrorists

Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
Malcolm Gladwell - The Colbert Report May 01 2007
Now out on paperback! Malcolm was a little quirky but made good arguments on how to use your intuition and experience to make decisions in life. Gladwell seemed very anti-Bush and said Colin Powell was a much better decision maker than the... read more

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1 year ago
List : The Colbert Report
Tags: blink, decisions

Spider-Man / Spider-Man 2 (Widescreen Special Editions)
Tobey Maguire - The Daily Show May 01, 2007
Spiderman 3 is coming out this Friday and Tobey was making the promotional rounds. He stated that the feedback the premeires was really positive. Left the option for doing Spiderman 4 open

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1 year ago
List : The Daily Show
Tags: spiderman

The New American Story
Bill Bradley - The Colbert Report May 01, 2007
Colbert asked had spoken to Bradley when he was running for president. Colbert asked, "so how'd that turn out for you?"

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1 year ago
List : The Colbert Report
Tags: bill bradley