March 17, 2021--On this edition of Forthright Radio, host Joy LaClaire speaks with award winning NY Times journalist and author of 13 books about science, Carl Zimmer, who unravels the mysterious borderland between the living and the non-living in his latest book, LIFE\u2019S EDGE: THE SEARCH FOR WHAT IT MEANS TO BE ALIVE. Followed by a remembrance of poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti.