Paula Apsell, Senior Executive Producer of the PBS series, Nova, talks with Steve Paulson about story choice and how to interview scientists.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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TTBOOK host Jim Fleming reflects on The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
Have you been to the High Line yet? It’s a new park in Manhattan, full of sunbathers, lush plantings and strolling locals. It’s also about 30 feet above the ground, built on the bed of an old elevated train line. Writer Annik La Farge talks about the park, five years into its reinvention.
Columnist Maureen Dowd says that a lot of people still don’t understand that a columnist is supposed to have a point of view.
Should the Star Spangled Banner really be our national anthem? John Hasse gives a short history of patriotic songs, and suggests alternatives for the national anthem.
Researchers opened the chimpanzee genome in 2005, raising a number of fascinating questions. Chief among them: if we share most of our DNA with chimpanzees, what is it that makes us different?
Maggie Nelson recommends "Close to the Knives" by David Wojnarowicz.
Charles Bukowski reads his poem, "The Poetry Reading." Then, Kristen Asbjornsen speaks with Jim Fleming from her home in Norway and explains how she set Bukowski's poems to music. And we hear the results.
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