Benjamin Cavell reads a bit from a story called “The Ropes” - about an injured boxer - and talks with Steve Paulson about violence and masculinity.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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David Cantwell and Bill Friskics-Warren are the co-authors of “Heartaches by the number: Country Music’s 500 Greatest Singles.”
Elaine Scarry's a defender of beauty. She says not only does beauty thrill and compel us, it also inspires us to make the world more just. Here's our extended interview with her.
Ayun Halliday tells Anne Strainchamps about being a young, hip Mom, and how motherhood is different from her expectations.
Bob Alper is a rabbi; Ahmed Ahmed is an actor and comedian. The two comics decided to perform together making use of their ethnicity to make people laugh.
From the tiniest microscopic particles to some of the biggest structures on earth, the new science of astrobiology is leading the way to the discovery of life elsewhere in the universe. Dimitar Sasselov explains why the creation of the world's first artificial cells will revolutionize lifeon our planet.
These days, it seems motherhood has become a struggle just to stay on top of the latest self-help trend.
Christine Kenneally tells Steve Paulson that Noam Chomsky thought language was hard-wired in the human brain, but later researchers have shown that its development is even more complex.
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