One hundred years ago, Fritz Haber invented the first chemical weapon and convinced the German army to use it. His wife Clara, also a chemist, fiercely opposed her husband's project. When she couldn't stop it, she committed suicide. Judith Claire Mitchell tells the story in her tragic and yet funny novel "A Reunion of Ghosts."
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Historian Sean Wilentz tells Jim Fleming the birth of Dylan’s music is deeply bound up in the politics of the time.
Stephen Marglin is a professor of economics at Harvard and the author of "The Dismal Science: How Thinking Like an Economist Undermines Community."
Howard Axelrod was accidentally blinded in one eye in a freak accident when he was in college. Disoriented and depressed, he retreated to an off-the-grid cabin in the Vermont wilderness. He stayed there, alone, for 2 years. Now he's published a memoir about his period of renunciation, "The Point of Vanishing."
The Oxford English Dictionary was created in 1857, and was expected to be finished within ten years. The first edition was finally completed 71 years later.
Psychologist and philosopher Thomas Moore talks with Anne Strainchamps about the connections between springtime and death, and how flowers reflect this.
Ziauddin Sardar responds to the question "is there really a clash of civilizations?"
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