Inquiry

Can animals like chimpanzees, elephants or dogs have a kind of moral intelligence?

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DAVE JAMIESON: MINT CONDITION: How Baseball Cards Became an American Obsession

Baseball Cards!

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Ian Stewart: Professor Stewart's Hoard of Mathematical Treasures Part Two

Inquiry welcomes back IAN STEWART, Emeritus Professor of Mathematics and Digital Media Fellow at the University of Warwick. We continue our conversation about Professor Stewart’s latest book PROFESSOR STEWART’S HOARD OF MATHEMATICAL TREASURES. Tonight we discuss who invented the zero and why having something that represents nothing is essential for doing higher mathematics. Then: what are the great unsolved problems of math?

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Jim Baggott: THE FIRST WAR OF PHYSICS: The Secret History of the Atom Bomb

The Atomic Bomb and it’s progeny remain the most destructive and feared weapons humankind has ever developed. But why were they created in the first place?

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George Michelsen Foy: ZERO DECIBELS: THE QUEST FOR ABSOLUTE SILENCE

An ear-splitting encounter in the New York City subway system sets writer and reporter GEORGE MICHELSEN FOY on a grail-like quest for total and absolute silence. Along the way he learned that absolute silence is a very subjective and elusive thing. His relentless search took him to sensory deprivation tanks, to conversations with astronauts and deaf scientists, and ultimately to the Orfield Labs anechoic chamber, declared the quietest place on earth by Guiness Records.