Intellect

Einstein's spacetime and time dilation open the door to time travel, black holes, wormholes and faster-than-light partic...

Darwin never said man descended from apes -- that headline was invented by two journalists. The first part of the evolut...

Before Darwin, the theory of transmutation claimed cats could turn into tigers. This episode separates that old idea fro...

A detour from the Galapagos: how relativity, evolution and quantum theory get turned into questions of faith, and why sc...

On the Beagle, Darwin found the marine iguana and the finches of the Galapagos, and the 1860 Oxford debate that raged ov...

Darwin closed On the Origin of Species with a line about the Creator breathing life into a few forms -- and both atheist...

A tour of history's most famous fictional detectives, from Poe's Auguste Dupin to Sherlock Holmes, the real-life doctors...

How Agatha Christie created Hercule Poirot, the Belgian detective who solved crimes through psychology and toxicology —...

Agatha Christie's restless inventiveness gave us Miss Marple — her origins, her methods, and the village of St. Mary Mea...

In 1968 William Link drew the first lines of Columbo — the rumpled lieutenant whose shabby coat, broken car and "just on...

Jessica Fletcher is a blend of several fictional detectives, while Inspector Maigret tops them all in sheer number of st...

Dr. Misir Ali, the solitary smoking psychiatrist of Bengali literature, and Inspector Zaki, plus a look at the Five Adve...