Ecologist Mark Hunter talks with Jim Fleming about the destructive capacity of alien insects.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Mick Foley thrilled wrestling fans for years as the character “Mankind.” He’s since written two best-selling autobiographies and two children’s books. Now he’s a novelist.
Rick Steves is the author of 30 European guidebooks, and host of public radio and television travel shows.
Jill Lepore does a reality check on Tea Party claims to the founding fathers.
Julia Mickenberg tells Steve that some of the best known children's book writers were longtime political radicals.
Neuroscientist Richie Davidson has developed an entirely new model for understanding the science of emotions. He talks about this paradigm shift and the personal journey that led to it.
Lynn Peril is the author of “Pink Think: Becoming a Woman in Many Uneasy Lessons.” She tells Steve Paulson that an idealized feminine identity was marketed to women to get them to buy all sorts of things, from beauty products to toys.
John Sedgwick was born into the historic and prominent Boston Sedgwick family and seems to have inherited the family tendency toward mental instability.
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