Holley Bishop is a New York literary agent who once wouldn’t have cared about nature. These days she’s flat-out in love with bees, and has written “Robbing the Bees - A Biography of Honey.”
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Genesis P-Orridge is a conceptual artist who calls himself a cultural engineer. He was born male but is re-inventing himself as a "pandrogyne," or hermaphrodite by choice.
In order to end the civil war in Liberia and the end of the brutal regime of Charles Taylor, a group of Christian and Muslim women used the power of prayer.
Hans Fenger tells Steve Paulson about the Langley Schools Music Project. In the 1970s, Fenger taught music to children in rural British Columbia by getting them to sing pop music.
Americans’ lives have improved by every objective measure, but we don’t feel any better off than our parents. Everyone seems to think that living well requires twice the income they have - no matter how much they earn.
Henry the Eighth needed a "fixer" to make his break from the Church of Rome and his many marriages legal in England. That man was Thomas Cromwell.
A deck of "Oblique Strategies" cards has been used by artists to create music and write book.
Seth Kane Kwei launched a revolution in Ghanaian funeral practices in the early 1950s, when he redesigned a chief's traditional palaquin into a coffin. His grandson, Eric Adjetey Anang, is now carrying on his grandfather's work, making coffins that reflect the trades, accomplishments and dreams of the deceased.
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