Little Atom 485 - Judith Matloff's The War Is In The Mountains
Judith Matloff is a Harvard graduate and teaches conflict reporting at the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism. Her articles have appeared in numerous publications including The New York Times, the...
28 Marras 20171h 1min
Converging Cultures Episode 3: Faces of war
Futurists like Marinetti and D’Annunzio revelled in the destructive energy of battle, but in Weimar Germany after world war 1, artists such as Otto Dix and Hans Fallada documented the horror of disfig...
25 Marras 201725min
Little Atoms 484 - Joshua Cohen's Moving Kings
Joshua Cohen was born in 1980 in Atlantic City. He has written novels (Book of Numbers), short fiction (Four New Messages), and nonfiction for the New York Times, Harper’s Magazine, London Review of B...
21 Marras 201742min
Converging Cultures Episode 2 - All in your head
“Mesmerism” was a part of mainstream medicine in the 19th century, with many believing the unprovable concept of “animal magnetism”. The idea influenced everyone from Robert Louis Stevenson to Sigmund...
18 Marras 201723min
Angela Saini's Inferior - How Science Got Women Wrong
Angela Saini is an award-winning science journalist, author and broadcaster. She is the author of Geek Science: How Indian Science is Taking Over the World, and her latest book is Inferior: How Scienc...
14 Marras 201748min
Little Atoms presents...Electric Enlightenment
Episode 1 of Little Atoms' documentary series "Converging Cultures" explores the influence of science on the Romantic and Gothic imagination. Electricity captivated the greatest minds of the “age of w...
11 Marras 201724min
From the archive - Ann Druyan
Ann Druyan is an author and television and film writer & producer whose work is largely concerned with the effects of science and technology on our civilization. She was co-writer with Carl Sagan and ...
7 Marras 20171h
482: Marcel Theroux's The Secret Books
Marcel Theroux is the author of five novels: A Blow to the Heart, A Stranger in the Earth, The Paperchase (winner of the 2002 Somerset Maugham Award), Far North (shortlisted for America's prestigious ...
31 Loka 201735min
