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5 Questions

Aquatic Octo-Mom: 5 Questions with Amy Sherrow, Aquarist I at the Alaska SeaLife Center

Michele Metych-Wiley - November 8, 2013
Britannica editor Michele Metych-Wiley talks to aquarist Amy Sherrow of the Alaska SeaLife Center about caring for marine animals, including giant Pacific octopi.
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Of History and Sorcery: 5 Questions for Marilynne K. Roach, Author of Six Women of Salem

Gregory McNamee - October 30, 2013
The Salem witch trials are a byword for suspicion, persecution, and hysteria--and for good reason. Yet there's more to the story than we might suspect, including the fact that a person likely to have been accused of witchcraft in the Massachusetts of 1692 would have been a middle-aged woman who's had a run-in with the neighbors. So reveals historian Marilynne K. Roach, whose new book Six Women of Salem recounts the story.
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Making the Nature Scene: 5 Questions for Photographer Cristina Rutter

Britannica Editors - October 25, 2013
Photographer Cristina Rutter recently spent a year helping the Forest Preserves of Cook County (FPCC) build a photo library, with an emphasis on people enjoying the natural lands surrounding the city of Chicago. She spoke to Britannica editor Bill Guerriero about the experience.
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On the Paper Trail: 5 Questions for Nicholas Basbanes, Author of On Paper

Gregory McNamee - October 9, 2013
Nicholas Basbanes has written numerous books on every aspect of books themselves, from writing and publishing to collecting and even, on occasion, committing crimes in the name of the love of print. Now, in On Paper, Basbanes turns to the very medium of books, delivering a lively look at an all too common and all too taken for granted material. Britannica contributing editor Gregory McNamee talks with Basbanes about his new book.
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On the Fungi Trail: 5 Questions for Langdon Cook, Author of the The Mushroom Hunters

Gregory McNamee - September 18, 2013
The world of professional mushroom hunters is a shadowy and elusive one--and lucrative as well, even as trade in edible fungi is becoming ever more international, thanks especially to hungry diners in China. Langdon Cook's new book The Mushroom Hunters provides a window into this fascinating scene. Britannica contributing editor Gregory McNamee talks with Cook about his book.
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Everyone Will Want Flies in Their Soup: 5 Questions on Entomophagy with Arnold van Huis, Tropical Entomologist

Britannica Editors - September 13, 2013
There's another food revolution coming. And it isn't a quiet one. It's practically buzzing. And clicking. And crunching. Britannica research editor Richard Pallardy talks to entomologist Arnold van Huis about eating insects.
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How Mad Men Get Inside Your Head: An Interview with Linguist and Cognitive Scientist Julie Sedivy

Richard Pallardy - July 29, 2013
Linguist and cognitive scientist Julie Sedivy, lead author of Sold on Language: How Advertisers Talk to You & What This Says About You, talks to Britannica research editor Richard Pallardy about the techniques advertisers use to convince (and coerce) you into buying their products.
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The Last Confederate Invasion: 5 Questions for Historian Allen C. Guelzo on the Battle of Gettysburg

Gregory McNamee - July 3, 2013
On this day 150 years ago, the Battle of Gettysburg drew to an end. When it did, it was discovered that nearly 50,000 American men, Northern and Southern, had been killed or wounded, making Gettysburg the costliest engagement in American history. The battle is significant for other reasons as well, as Civil War historian Allen C. Guelzo writes in his new book Gettysburg: The Last Invasion.
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Of Evolutionary Amputation and Projectile Tongues: 5 Questions with Reptile Researcher Alex Pyron

Richard Pallardy - June 24, 2013
Alex Pyron wants to lift the scales from our eyes so that we might better appreciate...more scales. Pyron and his colleagues recently completed a new phylogeny and classification of some 4,000 species of squamate reptile--that is, snakes and lizards. He discusses the project with Britannica research editor Richard Pallardy.
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A Tad Spiny, But With Violet Fins to Die For: 5 Questions with Shark Ecologist Paul Clerkin

Britannica Editors - May 17, 2013
Many of the species of sharks (and shark relatives) that Paul Clerkin studies live at such depths that the only contact they have with humans is when they surface as bycatch on commercial trawlers. On a two-month voyage aboard one such vessel last year, Clerkin, a graduate student at Moss Landing Marine Laboratories in California, discovered some 10 species new to science.
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