John Strausbaugh says blackface (and whiteface) have long histories in this country and helped Americans learn to live with each other.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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So, there’s a serious proposal on the table. Should we genetically engineer disease-carrying species of mosquitoes out of existence? The technology exists and some pretty prominent scientists think we should.
Let’s check in with Sonia Shah. She’s a science journalist who writes about pandemics and pathogens and the social history of disease. She wrote one of the best histories of malaria – a book called “The Fever”, and she has a pretty different perspective on the kill or be killed debate.
While the presidency so far has appeared to be a man's game, there is now the suggestion that women have shaped the job and the men from the very beginning.
As Jim prepares to step out of the hosting chair, he welcomes Anne as the new TTBOOK host and reflects on his long career in radio. We also hear listeners' letters to Jim.
John Emsley talks about the Periodic Table of the Elements, and why science, and the teaching of science, should be fun.
Biologist Richard Dawkins is the man the Intelligent Design Movement loves to hate.
Lawrence Osborne tells Anne Strainchamps he set out to teach himself what a wine critic knows. He thinks he did, but isn’t sure we need critics at all.
You'll have to know the great expectations of Cornell students to be successful for this round of the Whad'Ya Know? Quiz!
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