Sarah Flannery talks about how her father taught her to excel at math by giving her puzzles and she gives a few examples. Sarah won the Young Scientist of the Year Award in Ireland and in Europe in 1999.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Iraq War veteran Sergeant John McCary reads an e-mail he sent his family in 2004 about the brutal nature of the insurgency.
How do we mind our mortality without being overwhelmed with morbid thoughts?
Stoically, says philosopher William Irvine. But he says Stoicism doesn't require us to be unemotional about death and loss. Irvine says the Stoics used thoughts about mortality to make our lives more joyful.
African Genre Fiction is breaking the mold of African literature. And “Broken Monsters” certainly does that. It is a crime novel written by a white South African that is set in Detroit.
What have the recent leaks about the NSA's surveillance program have revealed? In this EXTENDED interview, computer scientist and independent scholar Susan Landau gives us her perspective, and weighs in on the questions of inquiries, and checks and balances.
Geneticist Steve Jones tells Jim Fleming that biologically men, who have a Y chromosome, are the second sex.
Terri Jentz is the author of "Strange Piece of Paradise: A Return to the American West to Investigate My Attempted Murder - and Solve the Riddle of Myself," talks with Anne Strainchamps.
First Amendment lawyer Ron Collins talks with Steve Paulson about the renegade comedian and junkie Lenny Bruce who was repeatedly arrested for obscenity.
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