Douglas Quin is an award-winning sound designer, naturalist and composer. His latest project is called "Fathom."
Douglas Quin is an award-winning sound designer, naturalist and composer. His latest project is called "Fathom."
Erik Larson talks about the World’s Columbian Exposition of 1893 and what it meant for Chicago at the turn of the century, and talks about America’s first serial killer who was operating in Chicago at the same time.
No one doubts memory is one of the things that shapes our sense of self, but is there a science of self?
Food critic Carolyn Wyman talks with Steve Paulson about the history of Wonder Bread.
Craig Childs is a naturalist and nature writer whose latest book is "The Animal Dialogues: Uncommon Encounters in the Wild." He talks with Steve Paulson about some of his life-threatening encounters with wild creatures and why he's not especially worried in the wild.
You wouldn’t think the novel “Lolita” would go over big in an underground women’s book club in Tehran. But literature, like the people who read it, has a way of surprising you. Azar Nafizi is the author of the celebrated memoir “Reading Lolita in Tehran.”
Benjamin Yandell tells Jim Fleming about the colorful personalities of the mathematicians who tackled some of the toughest problems in their field.