The WPA built 650 thousand miles of highways and employed 8 and a half million people. We explore its legacy
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Writer Peter Mayle tells Steve Paulson about growing French wine, and drinking rather a lot of it.
Jim Gaffigan is an actor and standup comedian, who makes extensive use of his "inner voice."
Randy Olson is a Harvard-trained evolutionary biologist and creator of the documentary film "Flock of Dodos."
Jon Ronson was assigned by The Guardian newspaper to find out how easy it would be to build a dirty bomb. So he did.
As editor of Poetry Magazine, Christian Wiman reads thousands of new poems a year. Who better to check in with on the state of English language poetry?
Paleo-anthropologist John Hawks talks about how we continue to evolve--changes that can be seen in the bones of modern humans.
Matthew Carter designed Verdana, the internet font; Helvetica, the most ubiquitous font family in the world; and Bell Centennial, the phone book font.
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