Richard Weinshilboum talks with Steve Paulson about pharmaco-genetics, which will enable physicians to make up drugs specifically geared to each patient’s metabolism.
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Peter Manseau and Jeff Sharlet are the authors of “Killing the Buddha - A Heretic’s Bible” and run an on-line magazine called Killing the Buddha Dot Com.
Many traditions from Confucianism to Judaism emerged as responses to the rampant violence of their time. Karen Armstrong says our own time has a lot in common with that age.
Michael Novacek is a paleontologist at the American Museum of Natural History. Novacek talks with Steve Paulson about some of his most famous discoveries.
physicist Robert Park says we’re inundated with pseudo-science and gives some examples of famous “scientific” scams and failures. Park’s book is “Voodoo Science.”
You know poems can be different things to different people: solace, a call to action, beauty. A reflection on war. But to Rae Armantrout there’s one thing that all poetry should be - read out loud.
Massillon, Ohio is obsessed with the town’s high school team, the Tigers. Kenneth Carlson was a Tiger and made a documentary film called “Go Tigers!”
Indian film-maker Mira Nair talks with Jim Fleming about being a woman director, and combining stories from East and West.
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