Harriet Brown had a smart, happy daughter who was stricken in adolescence by anorexia.
Harriet Brown had a smart, happy daughter who was stricken in adolescence by anorexia.
George Dyson grew up in the backyard of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, where some of the most brilliant engineers and mathematicians in the world (including his parents) were building one of the first computers. His new book, "Turing's Cathedral", is the story of their quest to build a working computer.
Gretchen Reynolds talks with Jim Fleming about the theories concerning running and the body.
Before he was a crooner, BIng Crosby was totally hip and outsold Sinatra. But he couldn't make the jump to rock and roll.
Hans Fenger tells Steve Paulson about the Langley Schools Music Project. In the 1970s, Fenger taught music to children in rural British Columbia by getting them to sing pop music.
Americans’ lives have improved by every objective measure, but we don’t feel any better off than our parents. Everyone seems to think that living well requires twice the income they have - no matter how much they earn.
A Prairie Home Companion's Garrison Keillor talks with Steve Paulson about being a mid-Western writer and moving to New York City.