Curious City - Chicago’s Biodiversity, From Eastern Red Bats To Prickly Pear Cacti
We start in the Chicago loop, then head south to the Powderhorn Prairie and Marsh to discover the area's rich flora and fauna.
NPR's Book of the Day - In ‘Lessons In Chemistry’ a chemist is the star of…a cooking show?
Bonnie Garmus' new novel Lessons In Chemistry has been getting a lot of buzz. Elizabeth Zott is a talented chemist but because it's the 1960s, she faces sexism in her quest to work as a scientist. So instead she has a cooking show that is wildly popular. Garmus told NPR's Scott Simon that the character of Elizabeth lived in her head for many years before she started writing this novel.