Carl Safina tells Jim Fleming about the leatherback turtle, which has been around for a hundred million years.
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Thomas Hardy's biographer tells Steve Paulson how his wife's death transformed the rest of Hardy's life.
Anthony Horowitz has written dozens of books for children, including the teen superspy series featuring Alex Rider.
Eric Morel is boxing’s flyweight World Champion. He was born in Puerto Rico but now lives and trains in Wisconsin. TTBOOK’s Charles Monroe Kane joined Morel at the gym for a day.
Ever heard of gold-farming? Cory Doctorow talks about some ways people get ahead in multi-player video games.
Pre-Modern hunter and gatherer cultures believed that dying was a kind of trial which didn't begin until you left your physical body and entered the supernatural world, according to sociologist Allan Kellehear. In these cultures, death is not the destruction of the body, but the annihilation of the personality and its transformation into something new.
Daniel Pauly tells Steve Paulson that technological changes in the modern fishery are wiping out vast populations of fish.
Journalist Elizabeth Kolbert's Dangerous Idea: human vices are just as important as human virtues in shaping evolution.
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