Rebecca Goldstein's Dangerous Idea? Teach children to be rigorous critical thinkers.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
Audio
A young man named Black Nature is one of the Sierra Leone Refugee All-Stars. He tells how the group formed while fleeing from the brutality and bloodshed of their country's civil war.
Frans de Waal talks with Jim Fleming about chimps, who can be aggressive and violent, and bonobos, who are mama's boys and like sex.
Cartoonist David Rees's cult hit comic, “Get Your War On” grew out of his frustration at the lack of satire in New York after 9/11.
Christine Gallagher tells Steve Paulson that revenge can be a healthier response than stewing over grievances, and shares some of her favorite examples of payback.
Novelist Elinor Lipman has written an essay for the New York Times on the fine art of blurbing – writing short, pithy quotes to appear on fellow authors’ dust jackets.
Apostolos Doxiadis tells Judith Strasser about his novel “Uncle Petros and Goldbach’s Conjecture,” in which a man becomes obsessed with solving a mathematical proof.
Jim Fleming visits Three Gaits Therapeutic Horsemanship Center and talks with Program Coordinator Dena Duncan about their riding programs for people with physical, cognitive and emotional disabilities.
Pages
