The search for a common ancestor to all life forms—or "concestor" —is the idea animating Richard Dawkins’ latest book. The Oxford biologist took Chaucer as his inspiration, and gave chapter titles like "the Cauliflower’s Tale" and "the Rhizobium’s Tale".
Parting is Such Sweet Sorrow
Bob Hennelly WNYC New Jersey correspondent on NJ Governor Jim McGreevey's farewell address
70 Is the New 68
Timothy Smeeding, Director of theCenter for Policy Research at the Syracuse University Maxwell School, gives his thoughts on the potential and perils of raising the retirement age
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» Timothy Smeeding
"From Plato to NATO"
Richard Dawkins, Biologist, "Professor of the Public Understanding of Science" at Oxford University author of many books on science, most recently, The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution (Houghton Mifflin,October 2004), gives a history of evolution in the form of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales
Gift from the Gods
Lewis Fidler, New York City Councilmember, (D-District 46, Brooklyn), says city schools need to allot more spaces for gifted children
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» Fidler
Netherlands
Tomorrow on the show we will look into the murder of the Dutch film maker Theo Van Gogh, which has shocked the tiny European nation known for its deep level of tolerance. Things may be changing there as this is the second public assassination in as many years. ...
Dawkins Reading at B&N
Richard Dawkins will be giving a reading at Barnes & Noble Upper West Side on 2289 Broadway, at 82nd St New York NY 10024 this evening (11/9/2004) at 7:30 p.m. He will be accompanied by his wife, actress Lalla Ward.
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