Shocking acts of violence are committed in the name of religion, but Karen Armstrong says we're too quick to blame faith for violence and intolerance around the world.
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Louise Barnett, author of tells Jim Fleming about the case of Captain Andrew Geddes, who was tried and convicted of slandering a fellow officer, even though the man was clearly guilty of sexually abusing his daughter.
John Landis talks about his new book, "Monsters in the Movies: 100 Years of Cinematic Nightmares."
Lada Adamic is one of a host of data scientists working at facebook. Anne Strainchamps wanted to know what all those sociologists are up to.
Check out Facebook's social science website.
Ricardo Pitts-Wiley contributed to an essay by Henry Jenkins called "Multiculturalism, Appropriation, and the New Media Literacies: Remixing Moby Dick."
Writer Peter Mayle tells Steve Paulson about growing French wine, and drinking rather a lot of it.
We present two takes on the question of whether or not the world's supply of oil is drying up. Princeton's Ken Deffeyes says production has peaked. Danish statistician Bjorn Lomborg says that's just crying wolf.
Leonard Zwilling tells Jim Fleming about boxing’s impact on the English language. It’s yielded such words and phrases as fan, throw in the towel, and up to scratch.
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