Booker Prize winner Ian McEwan's novels include “Atonement,” “Amsterdam” and “Enduring Love.” McEwan describes and reads from several of his books.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Jack Abramoff. He’s hardly a murderer. But to many in the Beltline, he’s the devil incarnate.
Historian James Tobin is the author of “To Conquer the Air: The Wright Brothers and the Great Race for Flight.” He says that the Wrights started with gliders and were competing with the Smithsonian to build the first motorized flying machine.
Could we actually clone a mammoth? Yes and no, says biologist Beth Shapiro--a pioneer in the new science of de-extinction. She takes us behind the scenes to examine the science and ethics of resurrecting extinct species.
Australian filmmaker and prankster John Safran talks about his trip to Mississippi to investigate the murder of a white national named Richard Barrett by a young black man named Vincent McGee.
Ian Ferguson is the co-author (with his brother Will) of “Why I Hate Canadians,” and now, “How To Be A Canadian.” He tells Anne Strainchamps that Canadians are passive-aggressive, not polite and that they hate Americans for not knowing or caring about Canada.
Renowned choreographer Bill T. Jones stopped dancing in his 50s - and recently, did something radical. He created a dance based on John Cage's ideas about chance and randomness. He felt compelled to reinvent his career at this stage of his life.
Alfred Wallace was the co-discover, with Charles Darwin, of the theory of natural selection. Wallace was also a great 19th century naturalist who spent years collecting speciments in the Amazon River Basin and later in the Malay Archipelago. Unlike the aristocratic Darwin, Wallace always had...
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