Intrepid TTBOOK intern John Pederson visits local bee keeper Mary Seeley as she's setting up some new hives.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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In “The Hunt for Zero Point” Nick Cook writes about the secret world of research into anti-gravity technology.
Richard Schweid loves eels. He tells Steve Paulson that scientists know very little about their life cycle, but that their numbers seem to be declining.
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.
There's a nagging question at major sporting events: Are the athletes cheating? Steroids, human growth hormones and blood doping techniques are extending the outer limits of performance, and athletes can use them if they want -- unless they're professionals or Olympic athletes. But is doping really a problem? Australian philosopher and bioethicist Julian Savulescu has a simple litmus test: What contribution is coming from the technology and what is coming from the athlete?
Not all illustrators agree on what to call graphic novels or when the first one appeared, but most agree that the man who brought them into the mainstream was Will Eisner.
Michael Colgan, director of the Gate Theatre in Dublin, co-produced “Beckett on Film.” He talks about the challenges of turning 19 of Samuel Beckett’s plays into films.
Harvard law professor Randall Kennedy has written another incendiary book: "Sellout: The Politics of Racial Betrayal."
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