Peter Larson is a professional paleontologist and commercial fossil hunter. His book is “Rex Appeal: The Story of Sue, the Dinosaur that Changed Science, the Law and My Life.”
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Cultural Critic Richard Todd looked at modern life and saw others telling what is and isn't real.
Reza Aslan seems to admire what Obama said in his recent Cairo speech but says Muslims will wait to see if the actions of the United States reflect its leader's words.
Paul Hoffman is the author of “Wings of Madness: Alberto Santos-Dumont and the Invention of Flight.” Hoffman tells Jim Fleming that Santos-Dumont’s craft (which he tethered to a light-post outside Maxim’s while he had dinner) was a motorized hot air balloon.
Historian Jill Lepore talks with Jim Fleming about Noah Webster and his dictionary. She says Webster thought Americans should have their own language and he celebrated American words.
Anne Carson doesn't call her work poetry. She says the best description is poesis, Greek for "making." A classics scholar, Carson is a translator, essayist and prolific forger of new literary forms.
Robert Orsi talks about the role of angels and saints in Catholicism pre-Vatican II and insists that people’s relationships with them are real, whether or not the spirits are.
Independent producer Matt Lieber takes us to visit The Moth, a collective in New York City that explores storytelling as an urban art form.
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