Richard Nisbett argues that parenting styles have an enormous impact on the IQ of children and so does simply telling middle-school children that influencing their IQ is within their control.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Jason Roberts tells Anne Strainchamps about James Holman, who traveled all over the world in the nineteenth century and wrote travel books, despite being blind.
The sonic sepia of a rare 78RPM lets us eavesdrop on Cantor Isaiah Meisels, singing prayers for theJewish High Holy Days in 1907.
There’s one devil we NEVER sympathize with: the terrorist. But... Hold on. Not so fast, says filmmaker Marshall Curry.
Jeremy Seifert fed his family on pickings from the local dumpsters in Los Angeles California. The adventure awakened him to the immense waste of food going on in America every day. The result is his documentary "Dive!" which tackles food waste in our throw-away culture.
Karen Armstrong tried to be a nun, then left the convent and all but lost her faith. She talks with Anne Strainchamps about how she gradually found her way back to god.
Jimmie Dale Gilmore, Joe Ely and Butch Hancock are individually successful and celebrated musicians. They’re also old friends and collectively make up The Flatlanders.
Mitchell Joaquim and the Terreform 1 team are looking for new, organic ways of building homes… and cities. About 4 billion of us live in cities right now. Predictions are, by the end of this century, that number will be closer to 8 billion. That means, for the foreseeable future, we need to build the equivalent of a city of one million people EVERY WEEK... How?
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