Inquiry Podcasts

Biological and chemical weapons are reviled and feared by all civilized nations. Yet their use goes back hundreds of years and despite international concerns and treaties, they have most extensively been used during the 20th Century.

KRISTIN HERSH is a songwriter, guitarist, writer and founder of the rock band Throwing Muses. During the 80s, as the band was just starting to take off, Kristin discovered she was bipolar, had a breakdown AND she became pregnant .

New words and concepts like “unparticles”, “Anthopocene” , “qubit”, “mashup”, and “cloud computing” seem to be generated every day and become common parlance in science, computing and technology circles. Where do these words come from?

The two Voyager probes were launched August 20 and September 5, 1977. 33 years and 21 billion kilometers later, these two spacecraft are still sending back valuable information about our solar system and they have power for another 10 more years of observation.

For most of his checkered career, J. Edgar Hoover considered women gangsters a special thorn in the side of the F.B.I. and set out to reconstruct the way the public viewed the likes of Bonnie Parker, Kathryn Kelly (wife of “Machine Gun Kelly”) and especially Ma Barker.

Tonight on Inquiry we welcome back artist; painter GUSTAVE BLACHE III, whose beautiful, painterly works have been described as “Contemporary Impressionist”.

Professor of Philosophy at City University of New York, MASSIMO PIGLIUCCI returns to Inquiry to continue our conversation about his important book NONSENSE ON STILTS: HOW TO TELL SCIENCE FROM BUNK. In 1986 there was a rash of sightings of U.F.O.s.

Do you want to attract birds to your yard but just don’t know where to start? Tune in to Inquiry tonight when we talk to returning guest BILL THOMPSON III about his wonderful new book IDENTIFYING AND FEEDING BIRDS.

Cab Calloway was a pioneering musician in every sense of the word, perfecting a unique stage presence and performing original music that changed the way jazz was performed.