With all that New York has to offer, Robert Sullivan chose to spend his time in a dark alley in Manhattan observing rats.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Our intern, Nayantara Mukherji, grew up in Bombay India, and all summer long, she’s been telling us stories about the unusual interactions she’s had with her neighbors there. Like this one – the case of the disappearing cat.
Philip Ball tells Anne Strainchamps that artists had to be chemists for centuries and that often the paintings we see now look nothing like the originals.
Poet Laure-Anne Bosselaar edited an anthology of verse called “Urban Nature.” She talks about it with Jim Fleming and reads some of her favorites.
For thousands of years, people have been telling stories about magical woods and enchanted forests. Writer and mythographer Marina Warner talks about the forest in human memory and imagination.
Lynn Peril is the author of “Pink Think: Becoming a Woman in Many Uneasy Lessons.” She tells Steve Paulson that an idealized feminine identity was marketed to women to get them to buy all sorts of things, from beauty products to toys.
You'll have to know the great expectations of Cornell students to be successful for this round of the Whad'Ya Know? Quiz!
Liaquat Ahamed talks about the parallels between the recent financial meltdown and the events that led up to the Great Depression. Both situations involved bubbles, and errors by the Federal Reserve System.
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