Holley Bishop is a New York literary agent who once wouldn’t have cared about nature. These days she’s flat-out in love with bees, and has written “Robbing the Bees - A Biography of Honey.”
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Hal Taussig thought it was time to discuss what books should be in the New Testament, so he organized discussions with a council of advisors. They've come up with a volume that has what everybody knows, and quite a lot most people don't. In this UNCUT interview with Jim Fleming Hal Taussig describes some of the 10 books they've added and why.
Anthropologist Gabriella Coleman talks about her book, "Coding Freedom: The Ethics and Aesthetics of Hacking."
Gerard Jones tells Steve Paulson, a dad himself, that children need to be able to “destroy” the things that scare them.
Henry the Eighth needed a "fixer" to make his break from the Church of Rome and his many marriages legal in England. That man was Thomas Cromwell.
Gus Russo tells Jim Fleming that organized crime has attempted to influence the presidential election on several occasions and finds it significant that Frank Sinatra acted as a gangster’s daughter’s prom date.
Geneva Handy Southall tells Jim Fleming about Blind Tom, a nineteenth century American prodigy who could reproduce any sound he heard.
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