Who was the real Henry David Thoreau? He wasn't exaclty an environmentalist, and "Walden" didn't simply describe his time living by the pond. Jeffrey Cramer looks at the man behind the myth.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Jill Price has total recall of her life from the age of about 14. They still don't know why, but hope to understand someday and use that knowledge to help other people
physicist Robert Park says we’re inundated with pseudo-science and gives some examples of famous “scientific” scams and failures. Park’s book is “Voodoo Science.”
Kathleen Parker believes that popular culture portrays men as incompetent fools and classrooms ignore material of interest to boys. She says intelligent women need someone else to talk to, much less to marry and raise children with, so it's in women's interest to fix this.
Michael Zweig tells Steve Paulson that a lot of Americans who think they're middle class are actually working class.
Peter Guralnick has written a prize-winning two part biography of Elvis Presley. Now he's tackled Sam Cooke.
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.
While the presidency so far has appeared to be a man's game, there is now the suggestion that women have shaped the job and the men from the very beginning.
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