Nidhal Guessoum, an Algerian born astrophysicist agrees that contemporary science in the Arab word is abysmal, but he looks back with great pride at the Golden Age of Islam.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Steve Paulson talks with Jorgen Nielsen and Sam Cherribi about the influence of the growing numbers of Muslims who have immigrated to Europe.
Lawrence and Nancy Goldstone are book dealers. They tell Anne Strainchamps what a first edition Harry Potter is going for now, and how the New England forger fooled the industry for a long time.
Anne Carson doesn't call her work poetry. She says the best description is poesis, Greek for "making." A classics scholar, Carson is a translator, essayist and prolific forger of new literary forms.
In Mark Salzman’s novel “Lying Awake,” a Carmelite nun learns that her religious raptures may be symptoms of epilepsy.
Physicist Michio Kaku tells Steve Paulson that he thinks there’s more and more evidence to support the idea of the multi-verse, boiling space and projects the possibility of humanity cloning itself into a new universe.
Jim Fleming reads excerpts from Murakami's book "What I Talk About When I Talk About Running."
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