Frank Ahearn is a former skip tracer, a Private Investigator who specializes in finding people who don’t want to be found.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Could the Islamic Jihad forge an alliance with the Aryan Nations? James Jones is an authority on religious terrorism; he says militant religious groups are beginning to collaborate.
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.
Jack Vitek tells Anne Strainchamps that Generoso Pope was inspired by people's fascination with the gruesome.
Name a problem and Washington seems unable to solve it. Poverty. Climate change. Unemployment. Immigration. Education. Enter the mayor.
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.
What separates your mind from an animal's? It's a question we've all asked, but renowned primatologist Frans de Waal says there's no point trying to rank who's smarter or dumber in the animal world. In fact, he believes there's no clear dividing line between humans and the rest of the animal world.
Jack El-Hai talks about Walter Freeman, the man who invented and promoted the surgical technique called the lobotomy.
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