Scientific American Frontiers 1993. Actor Alan Alda became the permanent host starting in the fall season of 1993 and continued until the show ended in 2005. So the show was also billed as "Alan Alda in Scientific American Frontiers". Alda's tenure has been notable for his humble and often humorous approach: in one memorable segment, he became car sick while driving an experimental, virtual reality vehicle. In 2005, Alda published his first round of memoirs, "Never Have Your Dog Stuffed: and Other Things I've Learned", published by Random House (); in the book, he recalls his intestines becoming strangulated while on location in
Things the Grandchildren Should Know Things the Grandchildren Should Know Things the Grandchildren Should Know is an autobiography by Mark Oliver Everett, the front man of the independent rock band Eels. Everett spent a year writing the book between the release of the retrospectives "" and "" and the composition of 2009's "Hombre Lobo." The book shares its title with the closing track from the Eels' 2005 album "Blinking Lights and Other Revelations." In that song Everett takes on the persona of an elderly grandfather sharing the wisdom he has learned about life shortly before his death. The parallels between the song and the book