Frances Perkins was the woman behind the New Deal as she was sworn in as Secretary of Labor under Franklin Roosevelt.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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John Emsley talks about the Periodic Table of the Elements, and why science, and the teaching of science, should be fun.
Biologist Richard Dawkins is the man the Intelligent Design Movement loves to hate.
Historian Michael Kammen tells Anne Strainchamps that the social distinctions between high-brow and low-brow culture are not as important as they once were.
Neil McCormick believed he was going to be the world’s biggest rock star, but that’s what happened to his childhood friend, Bono.
Lawrence Osborne tells Anne Strainchamps he set out to teach himself what a wine critic knows. He thinks he did, but isn’t sure we need critics at all.
"Shock Doctrine" journalist Naomi Klein's Dangerous Idea? Democratize the world's energy supply.
Sixty years after those Avant Garde composers of the 1920s, some Japanese musicians followed in their footsteps, exploring the outer reaches of sound with “noise music.”
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