Holly Black tells Anne Strainchamps what she thinks children get out of reading about magic or alternative realities.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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It has depended on thermal energy for centuries. Thanks to its hot springs, Iceland is 80 percent independent from fossil fuels.
Giorgio Moroder is 75 years old, DJing in front of huge crowds, and experiencing a level of success that he hasn't seen since the 1970s—when he produced some of the first, biggest, and best songs of the disco era.
Hao Jiang Tian grew up in China during Mao’s Cultural Revolution. Now he sings at the Met. Tian tells the story of how he moved from his hated piano lessons to life as a vocalist.
George Sarrinikolaou was born in Greece and now lives in New York. He can pass for a Greek, but still feels like an outsider there
Gregory Stock tells Jim Fleming that designing our babies’ genes will begin as a matter of screening out diseases.
The kind of people who live in places like Jackson, Kentucky often get characterized as poor, white and angry. And worse, as redneck and racist – hillbilly white trash. J.D. Vance knows them well. They’re his people. He grew up in Kentucky coal country and the Ohio rust belt - places he left behind when he went to Yale Law School. Today he practices in Silicon Valley, but he’s just written a book called “Hillbilly Elegy," which should be required reading for this election year. Welcome to Jackson, Kentucky.
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