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July 17, 2008 Last Aired December 14, 2008
The Black Hole War

Leonard Susskind talked about his book The Black Hole War: My Battle with Stephen Hawking to Make The World Safe for Quantum Mechanics (Little, Brown, and Company). In his book Dr. Susskind …
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September 25, 2007 Last Aired October 28, 2007
Avoid Boring People

James Watson talked about his book Avoid Boring People: Lessons from a Life in Science, published by Knopf. In this memoir, James Watson, the Nobel Prize-winning co-discoverer of the structu…
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April 28, 2001 Last Aired February 9, 2002
The Art of Fact: Literary Nonfiction

Mr. Weinraub moderated a discussion on literary nonfiction by authors of nonfiction. The panelists include: Mark Bowden, author of Killing Pablo: The Hunt for the World’s Greatest Outlaw, pu…
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April 28, 2001 Last Aired August 11, 2001
Mapping the Cosmos: Germs, Genomes, and the Big Bang

Moderated by President Baltimore, authors discussed their books on gene mapping and the possibility of evolutionary design in humans and the cosmos. After their presentations they answered a…
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April 23, 1999 Last Aired June 6, 1999
1998 Los Angeles Times Book Prizes

Los Angeles Times Book Prizes were awarded to numerous authors for outstanding literary works.
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