Historian Jeremy Black talks with Steve Paulson about James Bond as an agent of the British Empire. He says Bond’s adventures are often set in former British colonies.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Patrick Neate explains how young people from around the world adapt hip-hop to address their own concerns.
Rachel Cohen tells Steve Paulson that Ulysses S. Grant owed his publishing success to Mark Twain, and many other unlikely connection stories.
Michael Kimmelman talks with Steve Paulson about making your life a work of art.
It's the 100th anniversary of the beginning of World War One, and with conflict flaring up around the globe, we started wondering just what we know about what started the war that was supposed to “end all wars.”
Steve Paulson talks with Pete Best who was the Beatles drummer before Ringo Starr.
Autism's a tricky diagnosis. And its causes are also mysterious. Harvard Medical School neurologist Martha Herbert t advocates a whole-body approach, which looks at environmental toxins, vitamin deficiencies and immune problems.
Writer Mike Magnuson used to like being a lummox. Then he took up bicycling, and changed his life.
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