The Brian Lehrer Show
As The Ancestor Told His Tale....
Tuesday, November 09, 2004
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
» 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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