Conn Iggulden wrote "The Dangerous Book for Boys" with his brother, Hal. The idea is not to injure children but to help them have more fun.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Reporter Charles Monroe-Kane visits one of the last surviving grist mills in the US. He learns how water power is used to grind wheat into flour, and learns something about himself as well.
Novelist Stephan Eirik Clark's Dangerous Idea? Subdivide the United States into smaller countries.
A few maverick physicists in the 1970s revived interest in quantum physics by exploring some of the deepest philosophical questions about reality.
Dean King tells Jim Fleming about the ordeal of Captain James Riley and his crew. They lost their ship and were enslaved by desert nomads for months.
Daniel Levitin runs McGill University's Laboratory for Musical Perception, Cognition and Expertise.
Historian Jill Lepore talks about her restless search for the long-lost manuscript, "The Oral History of Our Time." It ran some nine million words and was supposedly the work of a madman named Joe Gould, who believed he was the 20th century's most brilliant historian.
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