Claire Tomalin has written a biography of nineteenth century novelist Thomas Hardy which reveals that he thought of himself as primarily a poet.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Brian Raftery tells Jim Fleming about karaoke in Japan and the man who invented it.
Eric Schlosser says our marijuana laws have a lot to do with class and race prejudice.
So your future self’s woken up at home on this weekday in 2055. Time for work, right?
But what kind of work? With America’s old industries sagging, what kind of jobs will we do?
To tackle that question, Steve Paulson sat down with MIT management professor, Erik Brynjolfsson.
She was born in Somali, settled in the Netherlands and was elected to the Dutch Parliament. She says that her fierce criticism of religion grows out of her own shattering personal experience.
Douglas Quin is an award-winning sound designer, naturalist and composer. His latest project is called "Fathom."
Carol Dweck is researcher at Stanford University. She says everybody fails, but not everybody fails the right way.
Daniel Libeskind is the architect whose design was chosen to the master-plan for the new World Trade Center site.
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