With so much curriculum to get through in school - should we still be teaching handwriting? Kitty Burns Florey says - yes!
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Historian Rebecca Spang tells Judith Strasser that "restaurant" originally meant a cup of broth and explains how it evolved into the culinary paradise we know today.
Keith Miller is a novelist for whom libraries function as a muse.
Robert Bly has re-translated some of the work of a fifteenth century poet-saint from India named Kabir.
One of England's most famous atheists talks about the role supernatural miracles play in his life.
Brion Gysin is the most influential 20th century artist you’ve never heard of.
Penny Von Eschen tells Steve Paulson about the State Department's use of jazz musicians as a weapon in the cold war to win hearts and minds in the Third World.
Richard Holmes is fascinated by what he calls "The Age of Wonder." The subtitle of his book is "how the romantic generation discovered the beauty and the terror of science," and he tells Steve Paulson about how Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein" came directly out of the scientific climate of the time.
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