Science writer Winifred Gallagher has come to the rescue of the decor challenged with her book "House Thinking: A Room by Room Look at How We Live."
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Harvard University historian John Stauffer talks with Steve Paulson about whether or not Lincoln was a racist.
Stewart Lee Allen explains why the ancient Greeks wouldn’t eat beans, how Spanish Christians began the tradition of eating ham for Easter, and what he’d serve at a dinner dedicated to the Seven Deadly Sins.
A darkly comic debut novel explores the secretive world of industrial flavor manufacturers. Stephan Eirik Clark skewers the food industry, flavor science, and the American way of life.
Ron Shaich, the founder of Panera Bread Company, has come up with a new business model: cafes where customers pay what they want or can afford.
Piers Vitebsky is an anthropologist who studies the Eveny or Reindeer People of Siberia. They depend on the reindeer for their survival. They keep herds of them for meat - but their connection goes even deeper. Vitebsky says that they also have personal, consecrated reindeer animal doubles, which they believe will die for them.
Scott Simon, host of NPR's Weekend Edition Saturday, and his wife have adopted two baby girls from China. Simon tells Anne Strainchamps why he and his wife are such fans of adoption.
Salman Rushdie talks with Steve Paulson about "The Satanic Verses" – the novel that caused a furor in the Muslim world and sent its author into hiding for a decade.
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