Suppose you drank too much at that party last night and some embarrassing pictures of you got posted on Facebook. Do you have a right to delete them? In Europe, you now have that legal right. But Georgetown University's Meg Jones says Americans are still sorting out conflicting demands for privacy and free speech in the digital age.
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Nicholas Carr recommends John Edward Huth's 2013 book, "The Lost Art of Finding Our Way," about how to use the natural world to navigate.
Marc Abrahams, founder of the Ig-Nobel Prizes, says who this years winners are and that the purpose of the awards is to make people laugh, and then think.
Novelist Larry Baker followed up “The Flamingo Rising” with a story called “Athens, America.” He marketed it himself, starting in the mid-West, where the book is set, and ended up selling it in grocery stores.
Jonathan Goldman talks about using sound as a therapeutic tool and demonstrates several of the so-called primal sounds in nature, using his own voice.
John Cage wrote some of the most controversial music of the 20th Century. Kenneth Silverman explores Cage's life in a groundbreaking biography called "Begin Again."
Merian C. Cooper dreamed up the original "King Kong." Cooper was an Indiana Jones - type figure himself.
Leslie Marmon Silko writes and paints to help understanding of her native Laguna Pueblo tribe.
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