One Laptop Per Child seeks to change the world by giving laptops to kids in places too remote to have electricity.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Steve Paulson chats with three writers from “The Onion” - the satirical newspaper that started out here in Madison.
Phyllis Curott is a Wiccan high priestess or a practicing witch. She talks about what Wicca is all about and talks about casting spells for practical purposes.
Jan Edwards tells Steve Paulson why she thinks corporations have too many legal rights and don’t deserve their status as legal persons.
Robert Kull chose to live completely alone off the coast of Chile for a year. He tells Anne Strainchamps the hardest part was the mental challenges he faced, not the weather or coping with his prosthetic leg.
A New York Times film critic talks about the role of film criticism in contemporary society.
No matter how much we learn about the brain, Sacks says we may never understand how the mind works. In this interview, he marvels at how the human brain is fine-tuned to respond to music.
Jay Parini is a poet, novelist and teacher. He's also the author of "Promised Land: Thirteen Books That Changed America." He tells Jim Fleming that his is not a list of "great books" but rather books that significantly changed the literary climate of American culture.
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