Sophy Burnham tells one of the stories from her "Book of Angels." This one's about two "businessmen" who appear just in time to stop a runaway wheelchair.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Jane Austen abandoned her novel "Lady Susan," but filmmaker Whit Stillman has revivied it - in a new film and novel, both called "Love and Friendship." He talks about why he loves Austen and the 18th century.
Steven Poole tells Anne Strainchamps that video games can be an art form and that they will continue to increase in sophistication.
The Interrupters tells the moving and surprising stories of three "violence interrupters" who try to protect their Chicago communities from the violence they once doled out. They believe that violence spreads like an infectious diseases, so the treatment should be similar: stop the infection at its source.
Exploding urbanism might be the biggest global innovation challenge, Chris Anderson says.
All eyes have been on the Middle East for some months now. But al Qaeda has been conspicuous for its absence...
Are there – should there be – limits to the kind of sins that can be redeemed? What about mass murder?
A forest is an amazing repository of both knowledge and wisdom. Ecologist Suzanne Simard takes Anne Strainchamps on a walking tour of a forest to point out the remarkable web of life both above and below the ground.
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