Teacher Jane Katch tells Anne Strainchamps about some of the bizarre and violent games her students loved, and how she negotiated rules to make them safe and fun for everybody.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Dominican-born writer Junot Diaz -- the MacArthur genius, Pulitzer Prize-winning author has written some of some of the most brilliant contemporary fiction about the immigrant experience.
Steve Paulson talks with Pete Best who was the Beatles drummer before Ringo Starr.
Philipp Blom tells Anne Strainchamps about some of history's great pack-rats, and what purposes their collections served.
What is normal? "Normal" is a social construct, not a medical one and society should learn to embrace diversity.
DEVO co-founder Mark Mothersbaugh talks about his new visual art exhibition, "Myopia."
Who was the real Henry David Thoreau? He wasn't exaclty an environmentalist, and "Walden" didn't simply describe his time living by the pond. Jeffrey Cramer looks at the man behind the myth.
Jim Fleming hosts an event at the Wisconsin Book Festival featuring poets Linton Kwesi Johnson and former Poet Laureate Ted Kooser. Both poets read work eulogizing their fathers.
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