Laurel Kendall is one of the curators of "Mythic Creatures," a blockbuster exhibition at the American Natural History Museum.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Biologist Renee Askins tells Anne Strainchamps why she is passionate about wolves, and why she was determined to re-introduce wolves to Yellowstone National Park.
Is mathematics what's most real in the universe? MIT physicist Max Tegmark thinks so, and he says it's likely we live in one of many parallel universes.
Jim Fleming talks with Jonathan Lethem about Dick whom Lethem calls “science fiction’s Lenny Bruce.”
Jeanne Safer and Richard Brookhiser would seem like an unlikely couple. She's a lifelong liberal, while he's a senior editor for the conservative National Review, and yet the two have been happily married for more than 35 years. They shared the secrets of a lasting marriage across party lines.
Penelope Fitzgerald is considered one of the great British novelists of the last half-century. Remarkably, she didn't begin writing until she was nearly 60 - and that's partly what attracted biographer Hermione Lee.
John Balaban performed alternative service in Vietnam during the war there. While helping children injured in the fighting, he grew to love the traditional sung poetry of rural Vietnam.
Children’s author Katherine Paterson tells Steve Paulson that too many people deny the emotional reality of childhood. Her books are popular because she recognizes the fears children face.
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