Historian and philosopher of science Robert Richards tells Steve Paulson that Charles Darwin himself believed evolution marches inevitably toward greater complexity.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Episcopal priest Matthew Fox tells Steve Paulson why the belief in Original Sin is destructive and leads to a culture of pessimism.
Mukoma Wa Ngugi is a poet and English professor who writes crime novels set in his native Kenya. He says the crime genre lets him write truthfully about race, class and violence in cities like Nairobi.
Winter. I am getting sick of this winter. It’s hard to get around. I’m never outside. I hate scraping and shoveling. . . And, I’m cold. And most likely you are cold too.
Richard Dawkins is an eminent biologist at Oxford University and one of the world's most famous atheists.
Jean Auel is the author of the phenomenally successful “Earth’s Children” series of books. Auel tells Anne Strainchamps about the extensive hands on research that informs her work.
Theoretical physicist Michio Kaku tells Steve Paulson about the theory that our universe is the echo from the Big Bang of some other universe.
Nina Paley has made a film using animation, Indonesian shadow puppets and a ‘20s era jazz singer to re-tell the story from the Ramayana of the marriage of the Hindu god Rama and his wife, Sita.
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