Peter Sobol, an honorary fellow in the History of Science Department at the University of Wisconsin talks with Jim Fleming about the best new science books of 2002.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Rick Perlstein is a historian who thinks the real story of the sixties is the rise of the modern conservative movement.
Steve Paulson introduces us to Mark Oliver Everett, better known as "E" - lead singer of the Eels, and son of Hugh Everett, the man who came up with the theory of parallel worlds.
Michael Zweig tells Steve Paulson that a lot of Americans who think they're middle class are actually working class.
Janet Guthrie was the first woman to race in the Indianapolis 500. Her autobiography is called “A Life at Full Throttle.”
Paul Martin says that people don’t get enough sleep these days and that our culture is wrong to diminish the importance and the pleasure of sleep.
Jim Cummings runs Earth Ear, an on-line catalogue of environmental sound-scapes. He talks about the new field of acoustic ecology.
Joshua Wolf Shenk talks about his book, "Powers of Two: Finding the Essence of Innovation in Creative Pairs."
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