"Ghostwalk" is an intellectual thriller set partly in Isaac Newton's time and concerning his interest in alchemy.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Patrick Hennessey tells Jim Fleming about his war service in Iraq and Afghanistan and the role that books played in his life as a soldier.
If you're worried about zombies every time you step outside, Max Brooks is your man.
Robert Bruggeman has a positive outlook on sprawl. He says societies have always grown and ours looks the way it does because suburbs represent the way Americans like to live.
The State Department used jazz musicians as a weapon in the cold war to win hearts and minds in the Third World. Louis Armstrong, Dizy Gillespie, Duke Ellington and Dave Brubek were among the so-called "jazz ambassadors."
Linda Lear tells Jim Fleming that the creator of Peter Rabbit could have been a scientist.
Wisconsin Public Radio's Jim Fleming provides an essay about memory and his aging father.
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