Benjamin Nugent is the author of "American Nerd: The Story of My People." He tells Jim Fleming there are two main categories of nerds and something about their history and the different nerdy subcultures.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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A researcher stumbles on a key to rapid evolution in this story by Jeff Bauer.
Erin Gruwell and two of her former students talk with Judith Strasser. They describe the hostile situation in their school in Long Beach, California, and Miss Gruwell’s solution.
Bob Jacobson attaches no moral value to working. He has a job, but would rather spend his time loafing, and gives some examples of his past jobs.
Craig Werner, Afro-American Studies professor at the UW-Madison, tells Jim Fleming why rapper Tupac Shakur is revered today.
How accurate is Barack Obama’s memoir Dreams from My Father? In this UNCUT interview, Steve Paulson talks with acclaimed biographer David Maraniss about Obama’s real coming-of-age story, his struggle with racial identity and his early political ambitions.
According to historian Thomas Laqueur, neither sanitation nor the soul fully explain the rang of rituals we've developed for caring for dead bodies. For him, there is a deeper anthropological truth at work: caring for the dead marks the human transition from nature into culture.
Recently 6 of the top 10 best- sellers in Iceland were his novels about a gloomy Inspector.
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