Samuel Delany’s review of “Call me Ishmael” by Charles Olson.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Nalini Nadkarni has been called “the queen of canopy research,” in part because of her personal philosophy to bring together two groups - the trees and the general public. She does this by collaborating with dancers, rappers, artists, and prisoners, just to name only a few. She created the Big Canopy Database to help researchers around the world to store the rich trove of data she and others are uncovering.
Eric Idle is a former member of the Monty Python comedy group and is now touring solo across America. When his tour stopped in Madison, he talked about death and comedy with Doug Gordon.
Do physicists think about End Times? Noted string theorist Brian Greene does. He looks into the far future - billions of years from now - and sees a very dark universe.
Dana Lindaman tells Anne Strainchamps that Americans should remember that other countries have different views of America.
Charles Matthewes tells Steve Paulson that while some acts deserve to be condemned, we should be careful not to exclude the perpetrators from the human race.
David Thomson makes the case that "Psycho" was a ground-breaking film that forever changed American cinema and America itself.
LaNiyah Bailey didn't like being bullied in school. When she was 6 years old she decided to do something about it. She wrote a book.
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