The founder of Storahtelling and the Lab/Shul re-interprets Yom Kippur as a Day of Forgiveness.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Ryan Boudinot talks to Jim Fleming about his post-apocalyptic novel, "Blueprints of the Afterlife."
Steve Paulson talks with writers and editors about the enduring influence of Vladimir Nabokov's novel "Lolita."
Before there was Wikileaks, before there was Wikipedia… Before there was Facebook and Twitter and blogs… there was a computer programmer named Ward Cunningham. He’s the guy who, back in 1995, invented the wiki.
Why aren't there more realistic portrayals of scientists in literary fiction? Cell biologist and novelist Jennifer Rohn founded LabLit.com, a website that's at the center of the new movement calling for more and better science in fiction.
Shaun Alexander tells Steve Paulson what chess does for him and why he thinks it’s good for inner city youth.
Psychologist Barry Schwartz says we've gotten it all wrong when it comes to work. He says the conventional belief that workers are motivated by money is deeply flawed, and rooted in false theories that date back to Adam Smith.
Some of the greatest trips give us that feeling of traveling back in time. Last summer, Aubrey Ralph did nearly that, when he spent nine days sailing aboard a 200 year old tall ship, across two Great Lakes. He was with the reconstructed U.S. Brig Niagara as she shoved off from her home port in Erie, PA.
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