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.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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You'll have to know the great expectations of Cornell students to be successful for this round of the Whad'Ya Know? Quiz!
"Shock Doctrine" journalist Naomi Klein's Dangerous Idea? Democratize the world's energy supply.
Richard Hand describes several of the programs that made that period the Golden Age of radio.
John Emsley talks about the Periodic Table of the Elements, and why science, and the teaching of science, should be fun.
Visionary computer scientist Jaron Lanier talks about his new book, "Who Owns the Future?"
For thousands of years, people have been telling stories about magical woods and enchanted forests. Writer and mythographer Marina Warner talks about the forest in human memory and imagination.
Peggy Orenstein tells Anne Strainchamps about “parasite singles” - young Japanese, mostly female, who reject the traditional life of marriage and children.
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