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  • Notes from the Arctic Circle

    What’s happening at the “fringes” of our planet’s habitable space and what can we learn of our future from the most extreme environments on Earth? We’ll talk this hour with traveler and writer Sara Wheeler, whose new book is “The Magnetic North: Notes from the Arctic Circle” (FSG, 2011).

  • How Biology Explains Warfare & Terrorism

    What drives the best and worst of human nature? We’ll discuss probable causes of our triumphs and failures this hour with Malcolm Potts, Professor and Chair of the Bixby Center for Population, Health & Sustainability at the University of California, Berkeley and co-author of the book “Sex and War: How Biology Explains Warfare and Terrorism […]