Tom Paine is the author of a novel called “The Pearl of Kuwait.” It follows the experiences of a Vietnamese-American Marine during the first Gulf War.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Shakespeare biographer Stephen Greenblatt isn't persuaded by rumors that question William Shakespeare's work. He insists Shakespeare's genius is that he was not a nobleman
Alex Honnold stunned the world by climbing El Capitan without a rope. So how did he do it? And why take such a chance?
Virginia Morell wrote a cover story for National Geographic Magazine on the latest research going on in the field of animal intelligence.
Roy Kaplan tells Steve Paulson what really happens to those people who hit the lottery.
Dr. William Frey, director of the Alzheimer’s Research Center at Regents Hospital in Minnesota and author of “Crying: A Mystery of Tears,” talks with Steve Paulson about the physiology of tears.
Sapphire performs several of her poems and tells Judith Strasser why she enjoys working in some very old poetic forms such as the villanelle.
Perhaps one of the most obvious and important cultural divides in the United States is between the political right and left.
In this UNCUT interview, social psychologist Jonathan Haidt talks with Steve Paulson about his research into the fundamental differences between Democrats and Republican, and how we might begin to speak across the gap.
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