Richard Fortey tells Anne Strainchamps why he’s been a life-long fan of trilobites, ancient water creatures who swarmed the Earth millions of years before dinosaurs.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Rob Walker writes the weekly column "Consumed," for the New York Times Magazine...
Loren Coleman tells Jim Fleming why he's still looking for the next Lake Monster or Bigfoot or Thunderbird.
Kamran Pasha has written a novel called "Mother of the Believers." It's the story of Muhammad's third wife, Aisha, whom he married when she was very young.
What would make Christianity more vital in the 21st century? Theologian Hal Taussig says one answer is "A New New Testament," which combines Gnostic gospels with the traditional New Testament scriptures - all within the same book.
<p>9/11 REMEMBERED: Philippe Petit spent years planning his illegal 1974 performance at the World Trade Center where he tight-rope walked between the Twin Towers. Petit looks back at the event and talks about what the destruction of the Towers meant for him.</p>
Literary critics have deemed Laura van den Berg one of American's best new writers. Listen in as she talks about the roles of memory and forgetting in our lives, and in her debut novel, "Find Me."
Theologian Martin Marty tells Steve Paulson that The Rapture is a fairly recent concept and can't be found in the Bible.
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