Cognitive researcher Douglas Hofstadter explains how gendered words and phrases — like using "guys" to refer to mixed company — can oftentimes reinforce sexist attitudes.
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Mo Yan is a Chinese novelist whom many critics think will be a future Nobel Prize winner. His new novel is called “Big Breasts & Wide Hips.”
Novelist Nicholson Baker tells Anne Strainchamps that e-readers have some advantages over the printed book, but the Kindle isn't his favorite.
Peter Guralnick has written a prize-winning two part biography of Elvis Presley. Now he's tackled Sam Cooke.
Richard Conniff is a journalist who sees parallels between the rich and some animal species. He’s the author of “The Natural History of the Rich: A Field Guide.”
David Rothenberg has played music with birds and even whales. But his latest music project is much less, well, melodious…
. . . like playing music with insects. He’s recorded songs with a lot of them -- crickets and cicadas and yes, even mosquitoes.
Producer Craig Eley sat down with David Rothenberg to talk “bug music.”
Katherine Ellison says that pregnancy and motherhood change women's brains for the better, making them smarter, calmer and more competent.
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