Scott Gelfand tells Jim Fleming about the latest in reproductive technology: the artificial womb. He worries that the device will be upon us before we’ve settled all the social and ethical issues it raises.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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In the run-up to this show, many of you sent in your stories of wonder. Here they are, crafted into an eight-part soundscape with the voices of Michael Arnold, Cynthia Woodland, Caryl Owen, and Peter Sobol. Thanks for sharing your stories!
What's Nobel Prize-winning physicist Steven Weinberg's Dangerous Idea? How beauty leads to scientific discovery.
Terry Tempest Williams adores Thoreau. She says his passion for social justice and his love of nature are intimately connected.
Author Sam Harris's Dangerous Idea? Free will may be an illusion.
What is water? When Anne Strainchamps asked Wisconsin's Poet Laureate, Kimberly Blaeser called up the story and myth of the Anishinaabe. Blaeser says growing up on the White Earth Reservation, surrounded by lakes, made her who she is today.
Scott Sandage tells Anne Strainchamps that the very meaning of failure has changed in American society over 200 years.
Anne Strainchamps asks Columbia College philosopher Stephen Asma what his colleagues make of the soul these days.
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