Chicago historian Tim Samuelson tells Jim Fleming about the time the City of Chicago decided to reverse the flow of the Chicago river and send its waste south along the Mississippi.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Few Latin American novelists are as beloved across the globe as Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Here’s Steve Paulson’s 2006 interview with translator Edith Grossman, who’s done more than anyone to bring Garcia Marquez to the English reading world.
Stewart Brand, founder of the Whole Earth Catalogue, says it's time to get pragmatic about managing climate change.
Wangari Maathai won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2004. She is dedicated to re-foresting Africa and talks with Steve Paulson about some of her Greenbelt Movement projects. Her memoir is called "Unbowed."
Terry Moore has just concluded the fourteen year run of his series "Strangers in Paradise" which chronicled the lives or ordinary people.
Given the history of the fraught relationship between the Catholic church and the sciences, you might be surprised to learn that the Vatican has an in-house astronomer. Listen in as he tells Jim Fleming about being a scientist in robes.
Svetlana Boym tells Anne Strainchamps that nostalgia was invented in the 17th century and seen as an actual physical condition for the next century of so.
James Gleick is a science writer with a particular interest in the cultural impact of technology. He's written a number of best-selling books, including "The Information," "Faster," and "Chaos." And Gleick's just come out with a mind-bending book called "Time Travel: A History."
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