John Wojda & Betsy Aidem (Photo: Carol Rosegg)

The Louis Slotin Sonata focused on the risks faced by researchers was dramatized in a fatal accident during the development of the atom bomb. The political situations scientists often find themselves in was at the heart of Tooth and Claw in which a director of the Galapagos based Charles Darwin Research Station was caught up in a tense conflict between rebellious fishermen who needed the harvest from to sea to feed their families and the Ecuadorian government which banned harvesting sea cucumbers from the protected waters. Tesla's Letters introduced audiences to a little known contributor to the story of electricity while The Secret Order provided a backstage look at the often Machiavellian practices of the medical research community. In String Fever the story of a once aspiring first violinist in a symphony orchestra coils itself around the concept about matter being the sum of microscopic strings.

" . . .Thermoluminescence. A simple idea with profound consequences. If you capture the intense shots of radiation the earth gives off, you can figure out how much time has elapsed since the last heating of whatever clay object has been buried. Like the dating of a dead love affair. Locked within the soil are the secrets of that heat."