At Length with Steve Scher

Steve Scher
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Steve Scher holds long-form conversations with writers, scientists and thinkers, given room to go where they want to go.

  1. 04/16/2020

    Athena Aktipis on The Cheating Cell: How Evolution Helps Us Understand And Treat Cancer.

    Cancer has been part of life since the origins of evolution.

  2. 09/06/2019

    At Length with Alva Noë

    Baseball inspires poets and scribes to wax on about some essential baseball-ness that reflects larger values. Maybe baseball is not simply a game, but something grander, a philosophy that might help people order the broader human experience? Alva Noë is a writer and a philosopher who thinks about baseball. His latest book is Infinite Baseball: Notes from a Philosopher at the Ballpark

  3. 06/23/2019

    At Length with Charles Fishman, "One Giant Leap: The Impossible Mission That Flew Us To The Moon."

    We think of the astronauts, those brave people who took a ride on a giant rocket ship into the unknown on their way to the moon. Charles Fishman got to thinking about the more than four hundred thousand working people who actually invented the space program, switch by switch, stitch by stitch, making the dream a reality.

  4. 06/03/2019

    At Length with Neal Stephenson, "Fall; or, Dodge in Hell"

    What will the digital world of the future be like? Will humans, or our eternally humming digital simulacra, live in heaven or hell?

  5. 05/21/2019

    At Length with Rachel Louise Snyder, author of "No Visible Bruises: What We Don't Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us."

    Journalist Rachel Louise Snyder has looked at domestic violence around the world in her new book “ No Visible Bruises: What We Don’t Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us.”

  6. 05/07/2019

    At Length with Dr. Sandro Galea, "Well: What We Need To Talk About When We Talk About Health."

    health, according to Dr. Sandro Galea, isn’t going to actually occur, for individuals or societies, if we stay focused at that level of attention and care. Health should be considered how everyone lives in their neighborhoods, the opportunities that exist in education and employment. Sandro Galea is an innovator in epidemiology. He is Dean and Professor at Boston University School of Public Health .

  7. 04/20/2019

    At Length with Mary Norris, author of "Greek To Me: Adventures of The Comma Queen

    After a career of carefully editing so many accomplished writers, language and punctuation remain a joy to Marry Norris, renowned New Yorker Copy Editor. Her first book, “Between You and Me: Confessions of AComma Queen,” was nominated for a Thurber Prize for American Humor. In her follow up, “Greek To Me: Adventures of The Comma Queen ,” Norris shares her love for the Greek language, culture and land.

  8. 04/12/2019

    Copy of At Length with Hedrick Smith, Winning Back Our Democracy

    A broken democracy, perhaps like a broken clock, can be right sometimes. Journalist Hedrick Smith’s new film, “Winning Back Our Democracy,” profiles citizen activists around the United States who are making a difference. As one Florida activist put it, if it can happen in their state, maybe community by community, an end to gerrymandering and a commitment to one person one vote can become a reality.

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