Malcolm Gladwell talks about the power of our tendency to make snap judgements and how important it is for our survival as a species.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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The authors of “Persepolis” and “Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth” speak together at the Wisconsin Book Festival 2006.
Can you fall in love with anyone? More than 20 years ago, psychologist Arthur Aron made two strangers fall in love in his laboratory. How? He asked them 36 questions. This year, Mandy Len Catron tried out the 36 questions with a guy she barely knew. Now they’re in love.
Pattie Boyd was a young model in London when she met and married George Harrison. Eric Clapton courted her while she was still married to Harrison, and both of them wrote songs for her.
Michael Muhammad Knight wrote a novel called "The Taqwacores." He made up the word: taqwa is Arabic for piety and core means hardcore.
Journalist Jean Zimmerman says that Americans are in the process of throwing away centuries of domestic skills and traditions.
Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky are the celebrated husband and wife team who've translated many of the great Russian writers. They've just come out with a new version of Tolstoy's "War and Peace."
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