We pay a visit to Reedsburg, Wisconsin's annual Fermentation Fest, a celebration of all things cultured and fermented.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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What if Crack Babies were a myth?
To see the NYTimes video on Crack Babies click here.
Storyteller Carolyn McVickar Edwards has a lovely little collection called "In the Light on the Moon."
Agriculture already shapes the globe. With food insecurity growing around the globe, the unpredictabilities of climate change and population growth booming... what will we eat in the future?
Jonathan Foley heads the Global Landscape Initiative at the University of Minnesota’s Institute on the Environment.
Christine Wicker is a former religion reporter for the Dallas Morning News, and the author of “Lily Dale: The True Story of the Town that Talks to the Dead.”
National Book Award winner Andrea Barrett writes some of the most beautiful fiction we know about scientists. The stories in her new collection, "Archangel" explore the history of knowledge through five linked characters. After reading it, we're awfully glad she gave up biology to write fiction.
Sarah Bakewell recommends "The Pillow Book" by Sei Shonagon (translated by Ivan Morris).
Princeton historian Anthony Grafton explains how learning conversational Latin inspired his students.
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