The Infinity Puzzle
January 12, 2012What do the first hints of the Higgs boson, which were announced last month at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider, mean for the study of physics?
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Money, Politics, and Corruption
January 12, 2012Hour 1: Is there any practical way to mitigate the influence of money on American politics? We’ll talk this hour with Lawrence Lessig, director of the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University and author of the new book “Republic, Lost: How Money Corrupts Congress–and a Plan to Stop It” (Twelve, 2011). http://podcastdownload.npr.org/anon.npr-podcasts/podcast/77/510036/145127070/KERA_145127070.mp3[Download […]
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War in the Shadows of the City of Light
January 11, 2012How did Portugal manage to survive World War II virtually unscathed and what was the wartime climate like in its capital city?
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Making Compassionate Decisions
January 11, 2012What’s the best way to approach health care and end-of-life decisions for loved ones?
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Is Consumerism Good for Us?
January 10, 2012Can consumerism restore the economy and ultimately save the world?
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Cyberthieves, Cybercops and You
January 10, 2012From shopping to banking and socializing, we do almost everything online these days, but just how secure is the internet?
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Flirting with the Divine
January 9, 2012Where do you find the divine?
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American Sniper – A Conversation with Chris Kyle
January 9, 2012What are some of the war-fighting strategies that we don’t often hear about and what’s it like to be virtually alone on the battlefield?
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An American Family in Hitler's Berlin
January 5, 2012What did Hitler’s rise to power mean for Americans working in 1930s Berlin?
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The Evolution of Ideas
January 5, 2012What allows some ideas to survive, while others are forgotten?
