Chelsea Cain wrote “Confessions of A Teen Sleuth: A Parody.” As she tells Anne, her book sets the record straight.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Neuroscientist David Eagleman is the author of "Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives." He tells...
I dunno, but it seems kind of extreme, not to mention risky, to bio-engineer a mass mosquito die-off. So Steve Paulson tracked down the world’s greatest living entomologist to see what he has to say. E. O Wilson is sometimes called “the ant man” – that’s the insect he studied most – but he’s best known as the evolutionary biologist and a champion of biodiversity. He’s 86 years old now, and has just finished what is probably his last book – called “Half Earth”. It’s a passionate plea to save humanity by dedicating half the planet to nature. You’d assume that Wilson would be happy to let mosquitos live in that half… but that’s not what he told Steve.
Agriculture already shapes the globe. With food insecurity growing around the globe, the unpredictabilities of climate change and population growth booming... what will we eat in the future?
Jonathan Foley heads the Global Landscape Initiative at the University of Minnesota’s Institute on the Environment.
Erik Davis, a fifth generation Californian, tells Jim Fleming that geographically and culturally, his state supports diversity and exploration.
Cultural scientist Alana Conner believes we all navigate different identities, and not just along racial or ethnic lines. She finds many cultural conflicts boil down to two competing types of selves.
Alastair Bonnett's Dangerous Idea? Let's change our cities to promote urban biodiversity.
In his book "Back to Our Future" David Sirota says the proof is in the staying power of 80s pop culture.
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