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.
Oct 14, 2010
Join us tonight for a wild tour of the humid and funky Bayou region. Our tour guide will be DAVE THOMPSON, writer and rock historian.
Oct 13, 2010
Professor of Theatre and professional Stage Director ADAM ZAHLER returns to Inquiry to talk about the upcoming production of JULIUS CAESAR at Worcester State University. What are the challenges of staging Shakespeare?
Sep 30, 2010
Photographer and film maker, SHAWN CAREY made his second trip to the scene of the Gulf oil spill just a short time ago to check on what progress was being made in cleaning up America’s greatest environmental disaster. It certainly seems that the oil spill is history and everything is fine.
Sep 30, 2010
Charlie Chan is a radically polarizing fictional detective of novels and numerous films. His ungrammatical speech, his fortune cookie witticisms have been declared offensive to most Asian Americans.
Sep 29, 2010
American politicians talk a lot about the economic “powerhouse” that China has become, but what do the people of China feel about their country’s unbridled development?
Sep 23, 2010
The life of a scientist is nothing like we read about in novels or see in the movies. There are many false starts, wrong turns, frustrations and most of all hard work. Tonight on Inquiry, we talk with DAVID E.
Sep 23, 2010
It’s night, and as you sit staring through a window at the lights of your town or city, you realize you can also simultaneously see a reflection of yourself in the windowpane.
Sep 22, 2010
SEAN WILENTZ, the Sidney and Ruth Lapidus Professor in the American Revolutionary Era at Princeton University, is also the historian-in-residence for Bob Dylan’s official website.
Sep 15, 2010
If you have ever had a class in lab, then you have seen a Periodic Table poster hanging on the wall. Have you ever wondered about this family tree of elements, who created it and who got name these elements?
Sep 15, 2010
Inquiry welcomes back ROSEMARY DRISDELLE for Part Two of a discussion on her delightfully disturbing book PARASITES: TALES OF HUAMNITY’S MOST UNWELCOME GUESTS.
Sep 2, 2010
Sparks was one of those unique bands you either loved and enjoyed or vehemently despised. Their songs sounded like nothing else on record with difficult rhythms and smart but extremely quirky lyrics.
Sep 2, 2010
There is no doubt our climate is changing, but how do climatologists know how much it is going to change and what is causing these changes?
Sep 2, 2010
Do you have trouble admitting you’re wrong but take real pleasure in pointing out the mistakes in others? Well, you are not alone. The experience of being wrong is one of the most despised yet complex and common phenomena in our lives.
Sep 1, 2010
Off our Massachusetts coasts dwell one of the great spectacles of the natural world: the great whales. If you have ever been on a whale watch and gotten close to a Humpback, chances are it was an event you will never forget.
Sep 1, 2010
Today there are hundreds of websites, television shows and vociferous people who will tell you that their idea is correct and that traditional science can be damned.
Aug 26, 2010
In the early years of the 19th Century, a loose association of poets, writers, publishers and radicals created the heart and soul of Britain’s Romantic movement.
Aug 25, 2010
It is the most recognizable equation in the world and it explains Albert Einstein’s theory of space and time in an elegant, yet deceptively simple expression. But what is the real meaning of this equation?
Aug 19, 2010
Don’t touch that dial!
Aug 19, 2010
Only a hundred years ago, the earth’s oceans seem to hold the promise of a limitless abundance of fish and the potential to feed the world.
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