There's a nagging question at major sporting events: Are the athletes cheating? Steroids, human growth hormones and blood doping techniques are extending the outer limits of performance, and athletes can use them if they want -- unless they're professionals or Olympic athletes. But is doping really a problem? Australian philosopher and bioethicist Julian Savulescu has a simple litmus test: What contribution is coming from the technology and what is coming from the athlete?
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Peter Doyle is the author of "Echo and Reverb: Fabricating Space in Popular Music Recording, 1900-1960."
Karen Armstrong tried to be a nun, then left the convent and all but lost her faith. She talks with Anne Strainchamps about how she gradually found her way back to god.
Marcella Hazan is a chef and teacher of cooking. She thinks Americans totally misunderstand Italian food.
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.
Jonathan Baillie is the lead scientist at the Zoological Society of London and directs its new EDGE of Existence Program.
Ken Reardon now teaches city and regional planning at Cornell, and was one of the founders of the East St. Louis Action Research Project.
Mark Kingwell is a Canadian philosopher who knows all about the terror of the blank page and the procrastination that leads to.
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