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    Long for This World: The Strange Science of Immortality

    Jonathan Weiner talked about his book, Long for This World: The Strange Science of Immortality. The interview, part of Book TV’s college series, was recorded in the King’s College Room in Co…

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    Long for This World

    Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jonathan Weiner talked about a group of scientists and entrepreneurs who are working to achieve human immortality. He spoke at Politics and Prose Bookstore in W…

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    His Brother's Keeper

    Jonathan Weiner talked his book His Brother’s Keeper: A Story from the Edge of Medicine, published by Ecco. In his book, Mr. Weiner tells the story of 29-year-old Stephen Heywood, who was di…

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    The Mysteries of Life and the Universe

    Award-winning writers talked about how science writing changes the way people view the universe and about the importance of dispelling myths. Lynn Margulis is the author of Symbiotic Planet:…

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    The Best American Science Writing 2000

    James Gleik, the co-editor, and three other contributors talked about the book The Best American Science Writing 2000, published by Ecco Press. The book is a new collection of 19 magazine es…

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    Time, Love, Memory

    Professor Weiner talked about his book Time, Love, Memory: A Great Biologist and His Quest for the Origins of Behavior, published by Vintage. He described the life and work of molecular biol…

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    National Book Critics Circle Awards

    Finalists for the National Book Critics Circle Award read excerpts from their submissions. Awards were then presented for five categories: general nonfiction, criticism, poetry, biography/au…

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    Book Critics Nominee Reading

    Professor Jonathan Weiner read from his book, Time, Love, Memory, which has been nominated for a National Book Critics Circle award in the general nonfiction category. It deals with genetics…

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