Jun 6th, 2008 · Best-selling author Richard Preston, known for his New Yorker profiles of science and scientists, talks about his latest project, Panic in Level 4: Cannibals, Killer Viruses, and Other Journeys to the Edge of Science. Preston talks with host Ira Flatow about his craft, and about the stories and people he has covered over the years.
Apr 12th, 2008 · The cannibal psychiatrist from The Silence of the Lambs is a murderous madman -- but he comes to be fond of FBI agent Clarice Starling. It's that evil-with-a-sweet-streak thing that's behind his appeal.
Aug 22nd, 2006 · A small Chinese town, with about 200 factories and 20,000 migrant workers, produces 60 percent of the world's supply of buttons. But Qiaotou's manufacturers are victims of their own success -- cannibalizing one anothers businesses with cutthroat prices.
Sep 26th, 2005 · In 1955, Tobias Schneebaum, an artist and anthropologist who died last week, hitchhiked to Peru in 1955 and vanished in the jungle. Seven months later he reappeared, covered in body paint, with tales of life with a tribe of cannibals. Host Michele Norris talks to Laurie Shapiro, who helped make a film about Schneebaum.