There was an unexpected consensus among the people in Madison, Wisconsin, when we asked them whether it's better to get or to give.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Anne Strainchamps talks with the woman who created the modern mid-wifery movement, Ina May Gaskin.
Jack Miles says maybe God became incarnate to repent for having thrown Adam and Eve out of the Garden of Eden, and that Christ initiated the Eucharist as a way for his followers to regain their immortality.
Steve Paulson talks with book critic James Wood about Dale Peck and the business of doing book reviews. James Wood is literary critic at The New Republic.
Anthropologist Hugh Raffles talks about the work of celebrated bee biologist Karl von Frisch and the remarkable ways bees reach consensus.
We might not have the perfect definition of the word “scoundrel” but we can certainly agree on one thing – Civil War General and US Congressman Daniel Sickles was the epitome of a scoundrel.
Ilan Stavans is compiling the first dictionary of Spanglish. He tells Steve Paulson that Spanglish is becoming an independent language.
From the 1980s to today, independent screenplays have used a distinct approach to cinematic storytelling.
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