Russell Stannard is professor of physics emeritus at Open University in London and the author of the Uncle Albert books – a series of books for children about physics.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Walter Simson is CEO of Infigen - a biotech company that uses nuclear transfer to create cloned pigs and cows.
"Fight Club" for women -- that's the book Sarai Walker wanted to read. So she wrote it herself. "Dietland" is a revenge fantasy and feminist manifesto for fat girls and women everywhere. If you've ever felt ashamed of your body, this is the book for you.
Neuro-biologist Steven Rose says that new research and new therapy techniques raise new ethical questions that we should address now.
Writer and ecologist Terry Tempest Williams talks with Steve Paulson about prairie dogs and their language and her trip to a village for genocide survivors in Rwanda.
Suzan Colon tells Anne Strainchamps how her grandparents kept their spirits alive while times were tough.
In 1935, a group of ornithologists from Cornell University set out on an expedition to find and record America's rarest bird: the Ivory-billed Woodpecker.
Sherman Alexie is one of America’s most acclaimed young writers with strong opinions about what it means to be a “real” Indian.
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