Brother Guy Consolmagno, author of “Brother Astronomer: Adventures of a Vatican Scientist,” talks wit Jim Fleming about the historic rift between science and religion.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Eoin Colfer is the author of the Artemis Fowl books. There are five of them now. The latest on is called "The Lost Colony."
Carrie Rickey is the film critic for "The Philadelphia Inquirer." She talks to Steve Paulson about how Marshall McLuhan's ideas influenced David Cronenberg's 1983 sci-fi/horror film, as chronicled in her essay, "Videodrome; Make Mine Cronenberg."
Father Thomas Keating is considered by some people one of the world's greatest living mystics.
Daniel Tammett loves numbers, can do calculations in his head into the millions, and can recite pi to more than 22,000 digits. But he has trouble telling right from left and looking people in the eye.
Could the Internet feel happy or depressed? That's a distinct possibility, according to Christof Koch. In this EXTENDED interview, he talks about computer consciousness, God, and just what it means that our brains have a hundred billion neurons and trillions of synapses. Koch wonders whether all matter might have consciousness.
Cheryl Gilkes talks with Steve Paulson about the importance of the female soloist in the tradition of gospel music.
David Edmonds talks with Jim Fleming about Bobby Fischer’s infamous chess match with Boris Spassky for the World Chess Championship in 1972.
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