Name a problem and Washington seems unable to solve it. Poverty. Climate change. Unemployment. Immigration. Education. Enter the mayor.
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Jack Vitek tells Anne Strainchamps that Generoso Pope was inspired by people's fascination with the gruesome.
Frank Ahearn is a former skip tracer, a Private Investigator who specializes in finding people who don’t want to be found.
Irene Pepperberg teaches animal cognition at Harvard and is an associate research professor at Brandeis. For thirty years, she worked with a remarkable grey parrot named Alex.
James Gleick's biography of the man who invented gravity, calculus and celestial mechanics, also reveals that Newton was the pre-eminent alchemist of his age.
Siberia is enormous, but Ian Frazier has crossed it all, from the Baltic Sea to the Pacific Ocean, in a barely functioning van.
Jack El-Hai talks about Walter Freeman, the man who invented and promoted the surgical technique called the lobotomy.
James Watson, one of the discoverers of DNA's double-helix structure, talks with Steve Paulson about making the discovery and what sort of environment produces scientific breakthroughs.
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