Philipp Blom tells Anne Strainchamps about some of history's great pack-rats, and what purposes their collections served.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Did you know nature is good for you? Richard Louv can cite studies that show crime rates go up in cities with less green space.
Jim Fleming hosts an event at the Wisconsin Book Festival featuring poets Linton Kwesi Johnson and former Poet Laureate Ted Kooser. Both poets read work eulogizing their fathers.
DEVO co-founder Mark Mothersbaugh talks about his new visual art exhibition, "Myopia."
Leonard Steinhorn tells Jim Fleming that Boomer Bashing is the last acceptable prejudice in America, and that it's nothing new.
Many traditions from Confucianism to Judaism emerged as responses to the rampant violence of their time. Karen Armstrong says our own time has a lot in common with that age.
When you think about the accomplishments of the Civil Rights Movement and the last 50 years, it's tempting to think we've become a post-racial society. But University of Pennsylvania professor John Jackson Jr. believes we're seeing a new type of racial divide, characterized by distrust and paranoia.
Lucasta Miller says that the Bronte sisters cultivated their image as lonely geniuses living in isolation but had to accept the real limitations imposed on women by society.
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