Dr. Bill Bass is a forensic anthropologist and founder of The Body Farm at the University of Tennessee. It’s the one place in the world devoted to the study of human decomposition.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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David Leavitt is the author of a novel called "The Indian Clerk" which tells the story of Srinivasa Ramanujan, the uneducated Indian who amazed Cambridge University with his mathematical discoveries.
If human beings are part neanderthal, Brian Fagan tells Jim Fleming the rest of us is something else - Cro-Magnon.
Get a local sampler of Ithaca cuisine with David Hirsch of the popular and influential Moosewood Restaurant.
Chris Moulin is a cognitive neuro-psychologist at Leeds University.
And what of those of us who have died, and come back to life?
Neurosurgeon Eben Alexander had a near death experience in 2008.
For decades, urbanists have been thinking about cities as organisms. They take in resources, eject waste, spread and grow. Theoretical physicist Geoffrey West decided to put the idea through the mathematical ringer. So, are cities like organisms? Yes. And no.
You can also hear the uncut interview with West.
Aubrey Ralph explains his enthusiasm for the Society for Creative Anachronism, or SCA.
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