It's the 100th anniversary of the beginning of World War One, and with conflict flaring up around the globe, we started wondering just what we know about what started the war that was supposed to “end all wars.”
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Michael Kimmelman talks with Steve Paulson about making your life a work of art.
Rachel Cohen tells Steve Paulson that Ulysses S. Grant owed his publishing success to Mark Twain, and many other unlikely connection stories.
Novelist Louis de Bernieres tells Jim Fleming about the climate of religious toleration that marked the Ottoman Empire.
Autism's a tricky diagnosis. And its causes are also mysterious. Harvard Medical School neurologist Martha Herbert t advocates a whole-body approach, which looks at environmental toxins, vitamin deficiencies and immune problems.
Writer Mike Magnuson used to like being a lummox. Then he took up bicycling, and changed his life.
Many traditions from Confucianism to Judaism emerged as responses to the rampant violence of their time. Karen Armstrong says our own time has a lot in common with that age.
Wisconsin Public Television producer Patty Loew talks with Anne Strainchamps about her TV documentary "Way of the Warrior".
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