Nancy Drew just turned 75 and still wields immense influence on the women who grew up reading her.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Robert Kaplan tells Jim Fleming that people had a lot of trouble accepting a mathematical symbol for the idea of nothing.
Nicholas Harberd spent a year observing a thalecress in a country churchyard. He kept a diary.
Jonathan Harris created the website wefeelfine.org. He tells Steve Paulson how it works, and we hear a montage of postings from the site.
Michael Pollan tells Judith Strasser where the American front lawn came from, and what it has come to symbolize.
Julia Alvarez talks about her novel for young adults, and how it mirrors her own experience reconciling a native Dominican background with the culture of her adopted home: a small town in rural Vermont.
For years, Paul Ewald's been trying to convince people that cancer is caused by germs, not genes.
In Laura Poitras's film "My Country, My Country" she shoots in cinema verite style and based her film on the actions of an Iranian physician and his family around the recent Iranian election.
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