Forget the Wright Brothers, the balloonists of the late 18th century were the first people to fly. In this UNCUT interview, Steve Paulson talks with Richard Holmes about the amazing history of ballooning.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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A portrait of Kathputli, India's last remaining magician's colony.
Patricia Person confesses she is a procrastinator in this audio essay.
Celebrated children's author Maurice Sendak talks with Steve Paulson about one of his collections.
Jon Scieskza tells Anne Strainchamps that boys like to read funny stuff, not the books their female teachers loved as girls.
Lorraine Johnson-Coleman tells Anne Strainchamps that cornbread is the ultimate Southern food and that Southerners can always recognize their loved ones’ fried chicken.
A recent study of DNA from Neanderthal bones changed everything we thought we knew.
Journalist Peggy Orenstein tells Jim Fleming about the raw food movement. She explains why they think food should never be heated above 118 degrees.
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