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On this edition of ST, we offer another installment in our Museum Confidential podcast series. This time around, MC speaks with the Pulitzer Prize-winning art-historian and acclaimed artist Steven Naifeh.

R. Philip Bouchard, a software engineer and educator, discusses his first book, which is just out. It corrects all sorts of misunderstandings regarding how we think about both science and medicine today.

Sachs writes a candid and accessible blog called The Patient Advocate's Chronicle.

We explore a novel set in 19th-century NYC that digs into the life and times of -- and the mysterious murder of -- one Andrew Haswell Green, who was once known as "The Father of Greater New York" yet is today all but forgotten.

Season 6, Episode 8.

"This empathetic, wise, and honest collection is brimming with poems full of heart and feeling." — Publishers Weekly

"Schaefer mixes social science, psychology, original reporting, and personal anecdotes into a work of nonfiction that is...compact and refreshing...[and] clearheaded and full of heart." — Vogue

"Substantive yet wryly humorous.... Skillfully drawing on primary and secondary sources, the authors show that Stephen F. Austin...fought to protect slavery from Mexican legislators' desire to abolish it, and that the independence movement was focused on preserving Texas's slave-based cotton economy." — Publishers Weekly

A readable and engaging history of how our most mysterious organ developed over time.

"A unique, lyrically written, exhaustively researched triple-biography of epic proportions about three women, mothers and organizers all, woven into a single narrative about their activist struggles before and during the Civil War. Their lives burst from these pages...." -- Yale historian David W. Blight