Many women are choosing not to have children because they know they are not good enough at nurturing. Madelyn Cain thinks this is an admirable, unselfish decision and one that more and more couples will make in the future.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Paul Feig is the creator of the short-lived TV show “Freaks and Geeks”. He tells Anne Strainchamps he and the other writers based the show on incidents from their own lives.
Richard Ranft says the oceans are teeming with noises and plays Jim Fleming a few examples from snapping shrimp to amorous haddock and walruses.
Joyce Tenneson is a portrait photographer whose new book is a collection of flower photos. Her work celebrates flowers at every stage of their life cycle.
In his last few years, Sacks revealed more details about his own life. One of the most remarkable revelations was his extensive use of LSD and other hallucinogens in the ‘60s. He tells Steve Paulson that psychedelics nearly killed him, but they also opened his mind to new ways of seeing the world.
While coastal dialects are being lost, new American dialects are developing all the time as American English evolves.
Do you need an advanced degree in math or physics to make discoveries about the cosmos? Science writer Margaret Wertheim says thousands of amateur scientists have proposed their own theories about the universe.
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