The second installment of "Saints & Rascals" (History in the First Person) is Avicenna, the great, great Persian doctor, philosopher, scientist, and p...

In this first audio essay, Thomas De Quincey, of a new series of monologues, Saints and Rascals, by Clark Carr, we hear De Quincey talk about his book...

This is the last chapter of the comic travel adventures. Comic after the fact, of course! Miserable or frightening while one is in the teeth of the ti...

The way you learn the Cardinal Rules is by breaking them wildly, dumbly. Best done at 4AM outside Mumbai, or in a crowded Manila airport lobby with wa...

Well, I've had more than my share of good luck. Here are three stories where it could have gone very south, very fast. But somehow kismet smiled on me...

Not everyone gets to present at a science conference in Iran. You would think this would be so simple. What could possibly happen? After all, we're al...

CC "Nix" Nixdorf comes clean and tells some stories on himself, when he put his feet throughly in his mouth...and even had to chew on them. Stories of...

In this chapter of "Tomfool Traveler," we go down to Mexico City and to what it was earlier, the capital of the Aztecs. We see that some of Mexico Tod...

These are eleven 'moments' that divide the 12 chapters of Tomfool Traveler. They span the globe from a Bangladesh sultry afternoon to a Hollywood lunc...

This is the sixth chapter of the travelogue adventures or misadventures, Tomfool Traveler, by CC Nixdorf, read by Clark Carr. Will we ever stop learni...