FMA Live! is a multi-media theatrical presentation that tours schools using a hip hop beat to teach Newton's Three Laws of Motion.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Duncan Watts is the author of "Everything Is Obvious*: *Once You Know the Answer." He tells Jim Fleming how common sense often fails us.
Spanish writer Teresa Solana writes biting, satirical crime stories set in her native city -- Barcelona. In her latest, she explores the fallout from Spain's economic crisis.
Chiori Miyagawa is a playwright in New York and teaches at Bard College. “Comet Hunter” is the story of Caroline Herschel who collaborated with her brother William during the 18th and early 19th centuries and made several important contributions to astronomy.
Boz Temple-Morris, the co-founder and Marketing Director of the Enlightened Tobacco Company, tells Steve Paulson the company was all about truth in advertising.
Elizabeth Samet teaches literature to future Army officers at West Point. She tells Jim Fleming why her class reads Wilfred Owen and Homer, and what lessons they draw from the poetry.
Psychologists John and Julie Gottman are famous for being able to predict with 94% accuracy whether a couple will break up, stay together unhappily, or stay together happily. In their Love Lab, they've identified hidden patterns of behavior that can strengthen or weaken relationships. If we'd known the secret to a good marriage was non-linear differential equations, we might have paid more attention in math class.
Getting words, quotes, even lines of verse inked under the skin is more common that you think. There’s even a name for it: Literary Tattoos
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