Radicalization, Revolution and Cosmic Expansion

The Leonard Lopate Show | Dec 28, 2015

An investigation into jihadism and the French legal system through the letters of Djamel Beghal, a jihadi who mentored the Charlie Hebdo attackers. A new film looks at how Hollywood action movies helped spark a revolution in Ceaușescu’s Romania during the 1980s. Vallejo Gantner talks about the annual COIL performing arts festival at PS 122. Physicist Alan Lightman considers the possibility of multiple big bangs and discusses quantum tunneling. 

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