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Isaac Newton & the Birth of the Modern World
February 24, 2011

Where did modern scientific study and our common understanding of the universe originate? We’ll spend this hour with science journalist and writer Edward Dolnick. His new history is “The Clockwork Universe: Isaac Newton, the Royal Society, and the Birth of the Modern World” (Harper, 2011).
How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Happier
February 24, 2011

Could urbanism ultimately save humanity? We’ll talk this hour with Edward Glaeser, the Fred and Eleanor Glimp Professor of Economics at Harvard and author of the new book “Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier, and Happier” (The Penguin Press. 2011).