Nature Via Nurture; The Black Market Economy
Nature Via Nurture
What really makes us who we are: nature or nurture? Larry Mantle talks with science writer and best-selling author of Genome, Matt Ridley, about his new book, Nature Via Nurture: Genes, Experience, and What Makes Us Human. Ridley challenges notions about natural talent, sexual preferences, gender differences, racism, etc., and presents new evidence to support the intertwined influences of heredity and environment on the personality, and potential of every person.
The Black Market Economy
Larry Mantle talks with best-selling author of Fast Food Nation, Eric Schlosser about his new book, Reefer Madness: Sex Drugs and Cheap Labor in the American Black Market (Houghton Mifflin). Schlosser focuses on three areas of America's underground economy: pornography, drugs, and illegal immigrants, all bringing in billions of dollars per year.