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Pistols and Petticoats: 175 Years of Lady Detectives

For TTBOOK host Anne Strainchamps her only encounters with guns happened in the pages of crime fiction -- usually, stories featuring women. Give her a woman and a gun and she was there for 200 plus pages.   Kinsey Milhone, VI Warshawski, Miss Marple, Nancy Drew…She could name dozens of fictional female crime fighters -- but not one real-life woman detective.  

That was until she picked up historian Erika Janik’s latest, “Pistols and Petticoats.”   It’s the story of how women moved from crime solving in fiction to the real world.   

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Rex Jung on Neuroscience of Creativity

Can you actually see creativity in the brain?   Neuroscientist Rex Jung describes brain imaging studies of creativity in action.

You can also listen to the EXTENDED interview, and read the extended transcript.

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Jim Fleming on Death

Jim Fleming provides an essay on the recent death of his mother.

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Margalit Fox on "The Riddle of the Labyrinth"

The clay tablets found at the Greek palace of Knossos had one of the strangest languages ever discovered.  Margalit Fox tells the story of Linear B - and the obsessed, tragic lives of the two people who devoted their lives to cracking the code.

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Nick Cook on Anti-Gravity Technology

In “The Hunt for Zero Point” Nick Cook writes about the secret world of research into anti-gravity technology.

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John Geiger on Brion Gysin

Brion Gysin is the most influential 20th century artist you’ve never heard of.

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Mark Moskowitz on Political Ads

Mark Moskowitz makes political ads. Moskowitz tells Steve Paulson about how political ads are made and about the art of the attack ad.

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Laura Miller on the Shortcomings of "Twilight"

Laura Miller tells Anne Strainchamps why she thinks Stephanie Meyers' "Twilight" books are such a phenomenal success with young women, even though the lead female character is so lacking in gifts or accomplishments.

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