Daniel Matt tells Steve Paulson that the Big Bang Theory is science's creation myth...
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Comic novelist David Lodge takes on the old battle between science and the humanities in his latest book, “Thinks.”
We re-examine the myth of Robert Johnson. The most famous blues singer of them all died at the age of 27 after recording only 29 songs. Today he's idolized, but Elijah Wald says that may be for the wrong reasons.
Bennett Alan Weinberg talks with Anne Strainchamps about how little we actually know about the vegetable alkaloid we know as caffeine.
David Dalton and his sister were assistants on Warhol's early Pop Art paintings when they were in their teens...
Entomologist Deborah Gordon tells Steve Paulson that ant colonies run with no one in charge. She’s spent years figuring out how they do it.
Ernie Cline talks to Anne Strainchamps about his novel, "Ready Player One," which revolves around a massively multi-player online game and '80s pop culture.
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