Irish poet Dennis O'Driscoll has eight books of poetry. The latest one is "New and Selected Poems."
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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From one of Israel's leading novelists, a gorgeous and searing story about war and grief.
He sounded the alarm about global warming over 20 years ago. Now he has a model of how to survive on our changed planet.
Nalini Nadkarni has been called “the queen of canopy research,” in part because of her personal philosophy to bring together two groups - the trees and the general public. She does this by collaborating with dancers, rappers, artists, and prisoners, just to name only a few. She created the Big Canopy Database to help researchers around the world to store the rich trove of data she and others are uncovering.
Do physicists think about End Times? Noted string theorist Brian Greene does. He looks into the far future - billions of years from now - and sees a very dark universe.
Charles Matthewes tells Steve Paulson that while some acts deserve to be condemned, we should be careful not to exclude the perpetrators from the human race.
Augustin De la Pena is a psycho-physiologist who works at a sleep disorders center in South Texas, and a leading authority on boredom.
Psychologist Daniel Goleman talks about "Emotional Intelligence."
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