Ilan Stavans is compiling the first dictionary of Spanglish. He tells Steve Paulson that Spanglish is becoming an independent language.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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James Ridge recently performed in “A Night in November”. It’s a one-man play about a Protestant clerk in Northern Ireland who decides to forsake the legacy of prejudice and hate.
George Dyson grew up in the backyard of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, where some of the most brilliant engineers and mathematicians in the world (including his parents) were building one of the first computers. His new book, "Turing's Cathedral", is the story of their quest to build a working computer.
Greg Mortensen is the author of "Three Cups of Tea." The book explains how a failed attempt to climb K2 led to a program to build schools in the heart of Taliban country in Pakistan and Afghanistan with local people and donated money.
Before he was a crooner, BIng Crosby was totally hip and outsold Sinatra. But he couldn't make the jump to rock and roll.
The guy who cuts in line at the coffee shop – people, usually men, who take advantage of others because they have a heightened sense of entitlement that they feel gives them a free pass. You and I have a word for these people. But is that really what you want to call the President of the United States?
Writer Gina Nahai grew up in Iran under the Shah and watched the growing strength of Islamic fundamentalism. Her latest novel is set in Tennessee, among a community of Appalachian Holy Rollers.
Psychiatrist Hans Breiter tells Steve Paulson that men’s brains may be hard-wired to appreciate female beauty and explains some of the science that makes him think so.
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