Monday 26 October 2009 -- 10 p.m. to 11 p.m. CDT
Critical Thinking with Andrew Patner
As a preview to the international conference Darwin/Chicago 2009 to be held October 29-31 at The University of Chicago, I talk with Robert J. Richards, Morris Fishbein Professor of the History of Science and Medicine at The University of Chicago. In addition to discussing the life and work of Charles Darwin, the 200th anniversary of his birth, and the 150th anniversary of the publication of his The Origin of Species, Robert Richards also discusses the evolution of Darwin's ideas and current trends and controversies in the areas of natural selection and the theory of evolution.
We'll also hear some excerpts of a delightful musical revue, Time Will Tell, written for and presented at the first international Darwin conference held at The University in 1959
on 98.7WFMT Radio Chicago and streamed (free) on wfmt.com
and subsequently available at
http://wfmt.com/criticalthinking
for free podcast/streaming.
Tonight's program is dedicated to the memory of Robert Lovett Ashenhurst, professor emeritus in the Graduate School of Business at the U of C, who died on Wednesday at his Hyde Park home at the age of 80. A longtime friend of this program, of WFMT, and of good words and music of all kinds in Chicago, Bob Ashenhurst was the co-creator of Time Will Tellwith the late Robert Pollak.
See you on the radio!
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