Hour 2: How did feathers evolve and why are they so fascinating and valuable to humans? We’ll talk this hour with conservation biologist Thor Hanson, author of “Feathers: The Evolution of a Natural Miracle” (Basic Books, 2011). http://podcastdownload.npr.org/anon.npr-podcasts/podcast/77/510036/137350808/KERA_137350808.mp3[Download MP3]
Hour 1: Is there a solution to our overloaded criminal justice system? Our guest this hour, criminologist and former Baltimore City police officer, Peter Moskos thinks so. He ponders the possibility of offering quick and severe physical punishment to criminals as an alternative to incarceration in his new book “In Defense of Flogging” (Basic Books, […]
