Thursday, May. 19, 2005 | The Kojo Nnamdi Show

He was the quintessential sportswriter. For almost 75 years, Shirley Povich wrote a daily column that mixed sports with sociology and statistics with historical insight, and kept Washington Post's readers absorbed. We look back at his...

When Marie Curie discovered radium in 1898, no one knew that forty-seven years later, her insight would lead to the creation of the A-bomb. With this summer marking the 60th anniversary of the bombings of Hiroshima & Nagasaki, we look...

You may not know his name, but you've heard his work: award-winning public radio documentaries like "Witness to an Execution" and "The Yiddish Radio Project." David Isay is an oral historian and one of public radio's most...