Coral reefs and many of the oceans' marvels may disappear before this century ends, according to a new scientific study. Science writer Elizabeth Kolbert says we're facing the sixth great extinction. In this extended interview, she tells Steve Paulson stories from the front lines of the fight against extinction, from Panama to Australia's Great Barrier Reef.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Etienne Van Heerdon tells Steve Paulson that many of his fellow writers are obsessed with his country’s history and that they could always say things in fiction that they could never get away with in journalism.
Dallas Abbott tells Anne Strainchamps about the massive chevrons she believes are caused by mega-tsunamis which are in turn caused by asteroid impacts on the Earth.
Frank Drake says SETI gets lots of false alarms and they’re all caused by signals that originate on earth, and that the situation will only get worse. But he’s still optimistic.
John Safran says we need writers who are outsiders. Otherwise, groups will keep hiding their secrets.
Brendan Halpin tells Steve Paulson about his early days as a teacher and why he stuck it out for several years.
Megabyte, terabyte, gigabyte... web-watcher David Siegel says the web's just too data heavy. The answer is to stop duplicating and make all that data - particularly our personal data - more meaningful.
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Pir Zubair Shah risked his life to report from Waziristan -- a Taliban stronghold in northwest Pakistan -- where he was detained by both the Taliban and government forces. He spoke to Jim Fleming about the dangers of reporting from that region of Pakistan.
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