Journalist Mark Pendergrast talks with Steve Paulson about the cultural history of coffee.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Christian and Muslim traditions often involve the afterlife. Is it as important to the Jewish people?
Take a look at any portrayal of the Dark Ages and you might come away believing it was a gruesome and violent time, but is that historically true?
People do without money in many different ways – from simple bartering to using bitcoin on-line. A group of parents in Madison did it by creating a babysitting coop.
Want to start your own babysitting COOP? Here are their guidelines.
Art critic and historian Michael Fried talks about his early days in New York and his friendship with the gifted and difficult dean of American critics, Clement Greenberg.
Since Michael Brown was shot, there's a new round of calls for a national conversation about racism. Is that realistic? Are we ready for what we might hear? A couple of years ago, NPR's Michele Norris told us about how a family secret sparked difficult conversations.
Wisconsin Public Radio producer Leo Duran reports on the science of movie and television science fiction.
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