David Bainbridge tells Steve Paulson that as soon as a woman becomes pregnant, the baby begins to dominate her biology, causing significant changes in her immune system.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Brother Guy Consolmagno, author of “Brother Astronomer: Adventures of a Vatican Scientist,” talks wit Jim Fleming about the historic rift between science and religion.
We've turned our hearts over to software; 30 million Americans have online dating profiles. About one-fifth of all new relationships in North America start with people meeting online.
So far, the algorithms don't seem to know much more than we do, about what we're looking for.
Erik Trinkaus tells Steve Paulson that many of our assumptions about them, and our other "cave man" ancestors are just plain wrong.
For eight years Anu Garg has been sending e-mail to a half million people in two hundred countries around the world, but it's not spam. It's "A Word a Day," a message with a definition, the word's etymology and an example of how to use it.
Dr. Ted Kaptchuk tells Steve Paulson about the work of some Danish researchers who have concluded that “the Placebo effect” is a myth.
Comic novelist David Lodge takes on the old battle between science and the humanities in his latest book, “Thinks.”
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