At length with Steve Scher. - The House of Podcast
1) Athena Aktipis on The Cheating Cell: How Evolution Helps Us Understand And Treat Cancer.
Cancer evolved as unicellular life evolved into multicellular life. With that conception of cancer as part of the evolving ecosystem of living cells, Dr. Athena Aktipis takes us on an exploration of c...Show More
2) At Length with Alva Noë
Alva Noë is a writer and a philosopher who thinks about baseball. His latest book is Infinite Baseball: Notes from a Philosopher at the Ballpark
3) At Length with Charles Fishman, "One Giant Leap: The Impossible Mission That Flew Us To The Moon."
"One Giant Leap: The Impossible Mission That Flew Us To The Moon," tells the story of the hundreds of thousands of people who made the moon landing possible.
4) At Length with Neal Stephenson, "Fall; or, Dodge in Hell"
In Neal Stephenson's new novel, “Fall; or ,Dodge in Hell,” the billionaire Richard “Dodge” Forthrast is left suddenly braindead. But rich person that he is, Dodge’s scanned brain ends up in an eternal...Show More
5) At Length with Rachel Louise Snyder, author of "No Visible Bruises: What We Don't Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us."
According to statistics from the Centers For Disease Control 2010 National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey: On average, nearly 20 people per minute are physically abused by an intimate pa...Show More
6) At Length with Dr. Sandro Galea, "Well: What We Need To Talk About When We Talk About Health."
Public Health thinkers, like Dr. Sandro Galea, argue that living in safe, stress-free places, where opportunities exist for ourselves and our children are among the most powerful influences on creatin...Show More
7) At Length with Mary Norris, author of "Greek To Me: Adventures of The Comma Queen
Mary Norris, the renowned New Yorker copy editor, takes us on an odyssey of all things Greek in her new book.
8) Copy of At Length with Hedrick Smith, Winning Back Our Democracy
Can grassroots activist, citizens organized to push back against dark money and gerrymandering, can you and me, save our democracy? Journalist Hedrick Smith argues it is possible in his new film, "Win...Show More
9) At Length with Hedrick Smith, Winning Back Our Democracy
Can grassroots activist, citizens organized to push back against dark money and gerrymandering, can you and me, save our democracy? Journalist Hedrick Smith argues it is possible in his new film, "Win...Show More
10) At Length with Siri Hustvedt
What we think happened in the past, even just a few moments in the past, and what actually happened are often different things. Varying eyewitness accounts reveal that people see and recall the same ...Show More