Mark Pendergrast tells Jim Fleming that mirrors were important in many ancient human cultures and recounts his experiences in a mirror maze.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Wisconsin Public Radio producer Leo Duran reports on the science of movie and television science fiction.
Jim Elledge is the co-editor (with Susan Swartwout) of “Real Things,” an anthology of poetry that references popular culture.
Art critic and historian Michael Fried talks about his early days in New York and his friendship with the gifted and difficult dean of American critics, Clement Greenberg.
John Emsley talks about the Periodic Table of the Elements, and why science, and the teaching of science, should be fun.
Philip Ball tells Anne Strainchamps that artists had to be chemists for centuries and that often the paintings we see now look nothing like the originals.
You'll have to know the great expectations of Cornell students to be successful for this round of the Whad'Ya Know? Quiz!
Henrietta Lacks was a poor, African American woman who died of cervical cancer at the age of 31...
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