Historian and philosopher of science Robert Richards tells Steve Paulson that Charles Darwin himself believed evolution marches inevitably toward greater complexity.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Parker Palmer has a solution to the problems of today's politics and it’s right in the title of this book “Healing the Heart of Democracy: The Courage to Create a Politics Worthy of the Human Spirit.”
Cosmologist Janna Levin tells Steve Paulson that the universe may be shaped like a soccer ball, but it must be finite. On the other hand, there could be many universes.
Peter Watson tells Steve Paulson that the history of ideas can be organized according to three really big ideas – the soul, Europe and the experiment.
Theoretical physicist Michio Kaku tells Steve Paulson about the theory that our universe is the echo from the Big Bang of some other universe.
Paul Theroux lived and taught in Africa throughout much of the 1960s. He returned recently and describes the journey in his book “Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Cape Town.”
Jennifer Egan tells Steve Paulson all about her polyphonic narrative "A Visit from the Goon Squad."
Winter. I am getting sick of this winter. It’s hard to get around. I’m never outside. I hate scraping and shoveling. . . And, I’m cold. And most likely you are cold too.
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