Kitty Burns Florey is the author of "Script and Scribble: The Rise and Fall of Handwriting." She says handwriting is the original font and talks with Jim Fleming about practicing Palmer method.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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We've got theme parks on the brain so we're revisiting Steve's conversation with Karen Russell re. her novel, "Swamplandia!," which is set in a gator wrestling theme park.
Mick Foley, as Mankind, played many Ed Ferrara scripts. Foley tells Steve Paulson how scripted matches could result in real injuries.
Developmental psychologist Peter Gray says play helps children make sense of the world, and teaches them the social and emotional skills they'll need as a adults. He's the author of Free to Learn: Why Unleashing the Instinct to Play Will Make Our Children Happier, More Self-Reliant, and Better Studsents for Life.
Marilyn Johnson tells Anne Strainchamps why obituaries are the best stories in the paper.
A portrait of Kathputli, India's last remaining magician's colony.
Jon Scieskza tells Anne Strainchamps that boys like to read funny stuff, not the books their female teachers loved as girls.
A recent study of DNA from Neanderthal bones changed everything we thought we knew.
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