Lauret Savoy believes too many nature writers focus on pristine wilderness and neglect the gritty reality of the places where people actually live - in cities, for instance, maybe even near toxic waste sites - which forces us to grapple with questions about race and poverty.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Jonathan Pieslak, author of "Sound Targets: American Soldiers and the Music in the Iraq War," talks with Jim Fleming about how U.S. forces use music and who they listen to.
Mark Pendergrast tells Jim Fleming that mirrors were important in many ancient human cultures and recounts his experiences in a mirror maze.
Matthew Carter designed Verdana, the internet font; Helvetica, the most ubiquitous font family in the world; and Bell Centennial, the phone book font.
Katie Salen is a game designer, interactive designer, animator, and design educator. She talks to Anne Strainchamps about what children can learn from designing and playing games.
Every spring in Japan, people crowd under blooming cherry trees. They're signs of spring, and remembrances of life's transience.
Master gardener Sadafumi Uchiyama says the blossoms are the quintessential representation of the Japanese principle of mono no aware... beauty in the intertwining of life and death.
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.
Steve Almond has loved football his whole life. But after investigating the violence and social ills that shape football, he explains why he no longer watches his favorite sport.
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