Iran; The Life and Death of Planet Earth
Iran
The media are talking about many nations in the Middle East, but Iran receives less coverage than most. It is well-known that President Bush includes Iran in the "axis of evil." But what is the role of contemporary Iran in the region? Host Larry Mantle speaks with Dr. Najm Meshkati, a professor in the department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at USC, and David Jackson, director of Voice of America and former correspondent for Time Magazine who covered Iran.
The Life and Death of Planet Earth
What does the future hold for the fate of planet earth? What will the planet's end be like? In their new book, Life and Death of Planet Earth: How the New Science of Astrobiology Charts the Ultimate Fate of Our World (Times Books), author/scientists Peter Ward and Donald Brownlee explain how the science of astrobiology enables us to see earth's future by looking both backwards at our own past and outward into the universe at other earth-like planets.