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Architectural historian Heather Ewing talked about her book The Lost World of James Smithson: Science, Revolution, and the Birth of the Smithsonian, published by Bloomsbury USA. She recounte…

Mr. Gleick discussed his biography Issac Newton, published by Pantheon Books. Mr. Gleick describes the scientist as “the chief architect of the modern world.” Mr. Newton was an innovator in…

Devra Davis talked about her book When Smoke Ran Like Water: Tales of Environmental Deception and the Battle against Pollution, published by Basic Books. Dr. Davis grew up in Donora, Pennsyl…

Thomas Hager talked about the disconnect between population theorists from Thomas Malthus to Paul Ehrlich who predicted mass starvation in the 1970s to the 1980s and the actuality of global …

Former Vice President Al Gore was shown talking to people as he signed copies of his book, An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It, publi…

Gene Kranz talked about his tenure as the Flight Director for Apollo 13. He provided an insider’s view of the American space program, from the first days of NASA and Alan Shepard’s first spa…

Bethanne Patrick interviewed physicist Joao Magueijo, author of Faster Than the Speed of Light: The Story of a Scientific Speculation, published by Perseus Publishing, for the March/April i…

Robert Sullivan talked about his book, Rats: Observations on the History and Habitat of the City’s Most Unwanted Inhabitants, published by Bloomsbury. He used the brown rat as a means of exp…

Amir Aczel talks about his book, Pendulum: Leon Foucault and the Triumph of Science, published by Atria Books, which is a biography of 19th century French physicist Leon Foucault (1819-1868…

At the National Press Club, travel writer Bill Bryson discussed his book "A Short History of Nearly Everything". The book describes the search to answer some of the great scientific questio…

Dr. James Watson talked about his book DNA: The Secret of Life, published by Alfred A. Knopf. In 1953 at the age of twenty-four, Dr. Watson, along with Francis Crick, successfully proposed t…

From Olsson’s Books & Records, editor Marianne Williamson spoke on her book Imagine: What Could America Be in the 21st Century, published by Rodale Books. Representative Dennis Kucinich and …

Author Bill Bryson read from his new book, “A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail,” published by Broadway Books. The book described his experiences as he walked…