Understanding bacteria:
How do benign bacteria work? How are infectious bacteria fought? And how are scientists adapting both types of bacteria to good - or evil - uses? This program answers those questions through the observations and insights of Stanley Falkow, president...
The Republic: Plato’s Utopia
This program scrutinizes The Republic, a work that has intrigued and infuriated for thousands of years. Was Plato’s plan for an ideal city—a place where philosophers are rulers and wisdom is the cornerstone of society—a blueprint, a satire, or...
The interpretation of dreams
Few figures have had so decisive an influence on modern cultural history as Sigmund Freud, psychology's grand theorist - yet few figures have also inspired such sustained controversy and intense debate. In this program, Freud historian Peter Swales;...