Contemplating the multiverse is mind-blowing, but if you want a truly earth-shattering controversy in physics, you have to go back 500 years to Copernicus' radical theory. Dava Sobel tells his story.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Historian David Blight tells Jim Fleming that popular memory of the Civil War all but obliterated the liberation of Black Americans.
Ben Kilham raises orphan bear cubs and then releases them into the wild. Steve Paulson visits Kilham at his home in New Hampshire.
Physicist Michio Kaku's Dangerous Idea? A virtual "library of souls."
Richard Yates’ debut novel was “Revolutionary Road,” which Kurt Vonnegut hailed as “The Great Gatsby” of its time...
Alissa Quart Recommends Elena Ferrante's "Days of Abandonment" and Elizabeth Hardwick's "Sleepless Nights."
A researcher stumbles on a key to rapid evolution in this story by Jeff Bauer.
Azar Nafisi tells Steve Paulson about her weekly secret meetings with students to read forbidden Western literature.
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