Lucasta Miller says that the Bronte sisters cultivated their image as lonely geniuses living in isolation but had to accept the real limitations imposed on women by society.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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At the age of 28, Chinese pianist Lang Lang has already played with the Vienna Philharmonic, the Berlin Philharmonic and all of the top American orchestras.
Pamela Logan has been studying and practicing martial arts for twenty five years. She’s a fourth degree black belt in karate. And she’s the author of “Among Warriors.”
John MacGregor is an art historian with psychiatric training, and the author of “Henry Darger: In the Realms of the Unreal.”
British journalist Jay Griffiths talks with Jim Fleming about the ways different cultures around the world think about time. Her book is “A Sideways Look at Time.”
NPR's Robert Krulwich, co-host of RADIOLAB, says that the secret to good science reporting is to start at the beginning and go slowly so people can understand it.
Lesley Kagen was a Milwaukee girl. But she blew off Wisconsin for the bright lights of LA, where she lived for 10 years. But despite the lures of California, something about Milwaukee kept calling her home.
Paul Martin says that people don’t get enough sleep these days and that our culture is wrong to diminish the importance and the pleasure of sleep.
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