Craig Venter, who's come as close as anyone has to creating life in a test tube, tells Steve Paulson what drives him.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Literary theorist Terry Eagleton's Dangerous Idea? The humanities are dying.
Ariel Levy tells Anne Strainchamps we are living in a Feminist’s nightmare.
Doris Kearns Goodwin talks with Jim Fleming about the political genius of the man she considers America's greatest President.
Anne here. My conversation with Turkish writer Elif Şafak back in April still sticks with me as the year comes to a close. In many parts of the world, 2016 was the year of the populist leader—especially in Turkey, where Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan launched a crackdown on free speech and all forms of opposition. 120 journalists have been jailed, more than 2,000 academics have been dismissed from universities, and more than 100,000 public workers have been fired. How did Turkey—once a model of new democratic nations—become such a different place? Not only did Şafak see this coming, she warned that the West should not consider itself immune.
Writer Barbara Fischer tells us the story of how starting a garden saved her life.
Edward Castronova talks to Jim Fleming about M.M.O.R.P.G.'s, "Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games.
What he learned from Albert Einstein, Niels Bohr and Richard Feynman.
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