Ian Caldwell and Dustin Thomason wrote a book about four brainy Princeton students and a 15th century manuscript written in code and it’s a runaway hit.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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James Mills looks into why so few African-Americans visit the national Parks today.
Rev. Alex Gee grew up in the shadow of the UW campus in Madison, and today is one of the city's senior ministers. Yet like many African American men he's been the victim of racial profiling in his own hometown. Rev. Gee spoke to Charles Monroe Kane about the everyday realities of racism and classism, and how they lock people out of the Wisconsin Idea.
Jamaica Kincaid tells Steve Paulson that slavery and colonialism helped create a tradition of irresponsibility in men like her father and stepfather.
Inocente is a 19 year old girl who grew up in San Diego. She loves art and is an accomplished painter. She’s also lived most of her life here as an undocumented immigrant from Mexico. She was the subject of the film that won the 2013 Oscar for best documentary short. It’s called Inocente.
Isabel Allende talks about what happened on September 11, 1973, when a military coup in Chile overthrew her uncle, Salvador Allende.
What makes something funny? Deep in the Colorado mountains, researcher Peter McGraw run the Humor Research Lab (HuRL, for short).
He thought he'd found the formula for funny. Then he circled the globe to test his theory. Here's what he found...
If the sea has a voice, how can we learn to hear it? James MacManus chews on that question in his first novel, “The Language of the Sea.”
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