Natalie Angier, Pulitzer Prize winner and author of the national bestselling Woman: An Intimate Geography, discusses her new book, The Canon: A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science. With her usual wit and intelligence Angier offers us this primer on the fundamentals of science, drawing from conversations with hundreds of the world’s top scientists, as well as her own experience as science reporter for The New York Times.

Recorded Tuesday, May 29, 2007 at Chicago Public Library.