Writer Elizabeth Royte spent some time on Panama’s Barro Colorado Island, the best-studied rainforest in the world. She describes some of the naturalists she met and their work in her book “The Tapir’s Morning Bath.”
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Novelist Colin McAdam conjures a fictional world of a childless couple who adopt a rambunctious chimp. We hear excerpts of his novel "A Beautiful Truth."
It sometimes seems as though everyone has read "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo" and the books that followed. The author, Stieg Larsson, died before he could tell the stories behind the books. Now his companion of more than 30 years, Eva Gabrielsson, has written about the man and his work. In this NEW and UNCUT interview she tells Jim Fleming about the books and her life with Stieg Larsson.
Dambisa Moyo was born in Zambia, got a Master's degree from Harvard's Kennedy School of Government and a Ph.D. in Economics from Oxford...
Chandler Burr's new book explains Luca Turin’s theory of how we smell and recounts his amazing ability to recognize the odor of particular molecules.
Daniel Alarcon is from Peru and the author of “Lost City Radio,” a fable about a nameless country broken in the aftermath of war and the woman who does a radio program for the families of the disappeared.
Barry Unsworth says that the layers of history are tangible on Crete, and talks about some of the island’s mythic figures.
Astronomers have detected strange light patterrns around a star 1500 light years away. The usual explanations fall short, so Jason Wright says one possibility is a massive structure created by an advanced alien civilization.
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