Historian Michael Kammen tells Anne Strainchamps that the social distinctions between high-brow and low-brow culture are not as important as they once were.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Mariana Gosnell tells Anne Strainchamps why ice floats, and stories about ice bergs.
Lawrence Osborne tells Anne Strainchamps he set out to teach himself what a wine critic knows. He thinks he did, but isn’t sure we need critics at all.
Jane Goodall is the name best known in the world when you talk about chimpanzees.
The World Cup is on our minds this week so we revisit Steve Paulson's conversation with Franklin Foer re. his book, "How Soccer Explains the World: An Unlikely Theory of Globalization."
You'll have to know the great expectations of Cornell students to be successful for this round of the Whad'Ya Know? Quiz!
Henrietta Lacks was a poor, African American woman who died of cervical cancer at the age of 31...
Mikael Niemi is the author of “Popular Music from Vittula,” the single best-selling book in Swedish history.
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