Novelist Nicholson Baker exposed what he called libraries’ assault on paper in a book called “Double Fold.”
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Peter Guber founded Mandalay Entertainment and Polygram Entertainment. He tells Anne Strainchamps that most people try to pitch him a business deal, not a creative vision.
Olga Nunes records voicemail memories of smell.
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We asked you to share memories and stories of your most precious saved handwriting. Here's some of what you told us.
Slime molds that solve mazes and parasitic dodder plants that seek out their prey are remarkable examples of nature's intelligence. Anthropologist Jeremy Narby offers lessons on how to see the entire world as our kin.
Inspired by stories of police brutality and the Rodney King beating, civil rights attorney Connie Rice says she declared "war" on the LAPD in the 1990s. These days, she trains and supervises 50 officers in one of Los Angeles' toughest communities.
M.C. Beaton writes mysteries under a variety of pen names. Matthew Prichard is Agatha Christie's grandson.
When you think about something as specific as the Paleo Diet you kinda gotta ask yourself how someone today really knows what someone ate, say, 15,000 years ago. So we thought, why not ask an expert? Say an anthropologist who is an expert on the subject?
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