One Laptop Per Child seeks to change the world by giving laptops to kids in places too remote to have electricity.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Paul Collins describes his experience as an antiquarian bookseller in the Welsh town of Hay-on-Wye in his book “Sixpence House.”
Are we ever good enough, or are we doomed to self-optimization for our entire lives?
Writer Michael Perry talks with Anne Strainchamps about his life combining writing with the new "back to the land" movement...
Stand-up comic Marc Maron compiled a one-man show based on his 1998 trip to Israel. The companion book is called "The Jerusalem Syndrome: My Life as a Reluctant Messiah." Maron tells Steve Paulson about the trip and performs excerpts from the show.
If traditional religion has lost its luster, where do you find sacred experiences? Anthropologist Erik Davis goes looking around the edges of contemporary culture - from Burning Man and trance music to psychedelics.
Peter Handel reviews mystery novels for Pages magazine. He talks about the rise of interest in mystery writers from such countries as Italy, France, Scotland and Sweden.
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