During Playboy’s glory years, he was the man who explained love and sex. Now James Peterson, once known as the Playboy Advisor, explains it to you.

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Granddaughter of mobster Al Capone, Diane Pette relates the stories her grandmother told her about how the ruthless man also had a loving and family-loyal side.

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Award-winning journalist Sean Carberry brings his extensive war-zone experiences to bear as he explores the effect of war on the mind.

 

 

In a world increasingly shaped by artificial intelligence, how do we define what makes human intelligence unique — and how can we better recognize it.

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Join Mark Lach, creative mind behind Titanic, The Exhibition, on his creative journeys, including his exciting and emotional dive to the wreck of the RMS Titanic and his adventures with King Tut’s tomb and the Vatican’s private libraries.

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24 years ago, Donald Basco was on the 57th floor of World Trade Center Tower 1, and Lt. Col. Ryan Yantis was having a busy morning at the Pentagon. They reflect on the sense of loss and life-changing moments they experienced on one dramatic day: 9/11.

 

 

How is the James Webb Space Telescope confronting our understanding of the cosmos? Dr. Wendy L. Freedman, professor of astronomy and astrophysics at the University of Chicago, brings it into focus.

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DePaul University’s Dr. Kathryn C. Ibata-Arens plumbs the hidden connections – biomaterials, medicines, innovation – on which your health and our planet's health depend.

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Canadian astronomer Dr. David H. Levy has made a career of comet quests. He calls it his “nightwatchman’s journey.” Find out how it led to his co-discovery of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9.

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“Sue” is the most complete Tyrannosaurus Rex ever found — and Bill Simpson’s BFF. Get Sue’s true story from the celebrated paleontologist.

 

 

How in blazes did a WWI German submarine end up 200 feet below the surface of Lake Michigan? Author Taras Lyssenko tells the improbable tale.

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Healing is key to surviving trauma. Few know better than Sophoan Khoeun, who was born in the latter days of the Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia and then found refuge with his family in Chicago. His story honors the heritage of that war-torn homeland.

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Meet the women of war, courtesy of Dr. Pamela D. Toler, who finds complexity, color, and courage in a history of women warriors from antiquity to the present.

 

 

Zombies love brains, so bring your big bean to hear author Scott Kenemore, humorist and member of the Zombie Research Society, slay you with his take on the evolution of the modern zombie.

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Zoom waaaay out with Dr. Shane Larson, professor of physics at Northwestern University, who wraps us in the fabric of time and space for a journey to explore wormholes, space warps, and tunnels to “otherwheres.”