Mar 10th, 2010 · "If all that grows starts to fade, starts to falter / Oh, let me inside, let me inside not to wake," Midlake's Tim Smith sings in "Acts of Man," which surrounds his meditation on man and nature with dense harmonies and the rich sounds of a folk-pop orchestra.
Mar 1st, 2010 · Bonerama's version of "When the Levee Breaks" pulls from the famous version on Led Zeppelin IV, complete with sly re-renderings of harmonica solos on swaying trombone. It moves with a heavy groove, dominated by the pounding wave of sound created by the slides of the trombone.
Feb 28th, 2010 · Earthquakes and other natural disasters are deadlier and more destructive than they were a couple of hundred years ago. Host Liane Hansen speaks with Roger Bilham, a seismologist at the University of Colorado at Boulder to find out why.
Feb 26th, 2010 · In his new book, The Calculus of Friendship, math professor and writer Steven Strogatz looks back on his 30-year correspondence with his high school math teacher. Can calculus, differential equations and chaos theory help explain the complex nature of human relationships?
Feb 23rd, 2010 · Some local chapters of environmental groups find themselves battling their national leadership over issues like natural gas. The national groups see natural gas as a less-harmful alternative to coal. But local groups fear the damage that gas production could bring to their fresh water and landscapes.
Feb 18th, 2010 · There is beauty in science. There is information in art. Merging those two worlds could bring new insights into how the natural world works.
Feb 17th, 2010 · Nina Totenberg passes judgment on the definitive account of Clinton vs. Starr. A true-life tale of Jazz Age medical sleuthing worthy of its own CSI spin-off. And an Ahab-like obsession with whales produces a deeply satisfying natural history of these magnificent monsters.
Feb 15th, 2010 · Scientists in England have found a way to trick bacterial cells into making compounds that aren't found in nature. Those compounds are proteins, and proteins are the basic building blocks of everything a living organism needs to survive.