Filmmaker Werner Herzog bookmarks "The Peregrine" by J.A. Baker,
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Celia Brooks Brown tells Anne Strainchamps vegetarian food is gaining in popularity because it is healthy and delicious.
Chris Jones tells us what happened to the three astronauts left in space when the space shuttle Columbia was lost in 2003.
Christopher Stewart's “Jungleland”, a book about his adventure in Honduras seraching for La Cuidad Blanca.
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.
Colson Whitehead talks with Jim Fleming about and reads from “The Colossus of New York: A City in Thirteen Parts,” his literary portrait of New York City.
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.
Dorothy Marcic tells Jim Fleming that you can trace the cultural status of women by analyzing the lyrics of 20th century popular songs.
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