A. J. Jacobs decided to read the entire Encyclopedia Britannica. He tells Steve Paulson why and some of the peculiar facts he picked up along the way.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Los Angeles comic and humor columnist Alan Olifson reads an essay on the dangers of enjoying irony.
Psychiatrist Allen Peterkin tells Steve Paulson that beards make people think of either Santa Claus or Satan, and that facial hair is making a comeback.
The third place winner in our 3 Minute Futures flash fiction contest is Jedediah Berry's story, "Dogs in the Snow."
Adam Mansbach is a white boy from an affluent Boston suburb who’s devoted himself to hip hop culture.
Anousheh Ansari became the first Muslim woman to venture into space when she traveled aboard the International Space Station.
Somalia didn’t have a written language until the 1970's, and today, many if not most Somalis still live within an oral tradition. And in that tradition the poet is king.
Amy Gorman is the author of "Aging Artfully," a book with 12 profiles of visual and performing women artists between the ages of 85 and 105.
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