Michael Cunningham won the Pulitzer Prize for his novel “The Hours,” which re-imagined the life and death of Virginia Woolf. His new novel is called “Specimen Days” and involves Walt Whitman.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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When you think about something as specific as the Paleo Diet you kinda gotta ask yourself how someone today really knows what someone ate, say, 15,000 years ago. So we thought, why not ask an expert? Say an anthropologist who is an expert on the subject?
Lorne Ladner tells Jim Fleming that accepting the inevitability of one’s own death leads a person to truly appreciate living while you can.
Researchers opened the chimpanzee genome in 2005, raising a number of fascinating questions. Chief among them: if we share most of our DNA with chimpanzees, what is it that makes us different?
Linguist John McWhorter says all six thousand contemporary languages evolved from a single source and that there’s no such thing as a pure language.
Journalist Jean Zimmerman says that Americans are in the process of throwing away centuries of domestic skills and traditions.
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