Adam Leith Gollner talks about his book, "The Book of Immortality: The Science, Belief, and Magic Behind Living Forever."
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Howard Schwartz talks with Anne Strainchamps about the angel traditions in Judaism, and the many angelic appearances in Hebrew literature.
Isabel Allende talks with Anne Strainchamps about "The Sum of Our Days." It's Allende's fourth memoir, and takes the form of a letter to her deceased daughter, Paula.
Maybe the Earth itself is alive. That’s the remarkable idea behind the Gaia hypothesis.
Britain’s best-selling mystery writer, Ian Rankin, talks about his character, Inspector John Rebus. He explains what Edinburgh is really like, and how Scotland has been affected by world events like the air crash at Lockerbie.
Jack Turner tells Jim Fleming that spices seemed magical in the middle ages and it was only in the 17th & 18th centuries that people began to accept them as food.
Jamie Meltzer directed a documentary film called “Off the Charts.” It’s about the business of “song-poems.”
Ira Glass is the host of the public radio program This American Life. He tells Steve Paulson what makes a story work on the radio and plays several examples.
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