Garrison Keillor, host of A Prairie Home Companion, recalls his coming of age in his novel, “Lake Woebegon: Summer of 1956.”
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Gretchen Reynolds talks with Jim Fleming about the theories concerning running and the body.
How important is this discovery of hominin fossils in the Rising Star Cave? Paleoanthropologist John Hawks says it overturns many of our assumptions about human prehistory, and also raises profound questions about what these human-like creatures thought about death and ritual.
Glenn Kurtz was a child prodigy of sorts and headed for a big concert career as a classical guitarist. But it didn't happen. Now he's playing again but for the joy of it.
Americans’ lives have improved by every objective measure, but we don’t feel any better off than our parents. Everyone seems to think that living well requires twice the income they have - no matter how much they earn.
Holley Bishop is a New York literary agent who once wouldn’t have cared about nature. These days she’s flat-out in love with bees, and has written “Robbing the Bees - A Biography of Honey.”
In order to end the civil war in Liberia and the end of the brutal regime of Charles Taylor, a group of Christian and Muslim women used the power of prayer.
Genesis P-Orridge is a conceptual artist who calls himself a cultural engineer. He was born male but is re-inventing himself as a "pandrogyne," or hermaphrodite by choice.
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