John Emsley talks about the Periodic Table of the Elements, and why science, and the teaching of science, should be fun.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Henrietta Lacks was a poor, African American woman who died of cervical cancer at the age of 31...
More than 30 million Americans live in small towns. And lots of us will drive through small towns on road trips this summer. Princeton sociologist Robert Wuthnow just completed the first comprehensive study in half a century of small-town living. Here's his conversation with Anne...
One of this summer's hot new reads is Dean Bakopoulos' new novel, "Summerlong." It's the story of Claire and Don Lowry. They've been married for a long time. And they're now back in the college town where they met -- Grinnell, Iowa. Claire wanted to be a writer but wound up a stay-at-home mom, while Don is a real estate agent. When we meet them, they're deeply in debt and unbeknownst to Claire, they're also behind on their mortgage. And then everything begins to fall apart.
Maurice Sendak talks about growing up as a Jewish child in WWII New York.
Richard Hand describes several of the programs that made that period the Golden Age of radio.
The World Cup is on our minds this week so we revisit Steve Paulson's conversation with Franklin Foer re. his book, "How Soccer Explains the World: An Unlikely Theory of Globalization."
Mikael Niemi is the author of “Popular Music from Vittula,” the single best-selling book in Swedish history.
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