Paul Martin says that people don’t get enough sleep these days and that our culture is wrong to diminish the importance and the pleasure of sleep.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Do you need an advanced degree in math or physics to make discoveries about the cosmos? Science writer Margaret Wertheim says thousands of amateur scientists have proposed their own theories about the universe.
Michael Zweig tells Steve Paulson that a lot of Americans who think they're middle class are actually working class.
Many women are choosing not to have children because they know they are not good enough at nurturing. Madelyn Cain thinks this is an admirable, unselfish decision and one that more and more couples will make in the future.
When we think of slavery, many of us think of it as an historic trauma—something in the past that the nation"overcame" to become what it is today. But according to Edward Baptist, the instution of slavery drove the economic development and modernization of the United States, and laid the groundwork for American capitalism as we know it today.
Teacher Jane Katch tells Anne Strainchamps about some of the bizarre and violent games her students loved, and how she negotiated rules to make them safe and fun for everybody.
Novelist Mark Salzman talks about his experience teaching creative writing at Central Juvenile Hall in Los Angeles, a detention center for L.A.’s most serious young offenders.
Mr. Cutlets loves meat. He rhapsodizes about pork chops and his favorite steaks with Jim Fleming.
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