Charles Duhigg bookmarks "The Children" by David Haberstam.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Diana Athill was the editor of some of the most celebrated writers of our time, including John Updike, Simone de Beauvoir, and V.S. Naipaul.
Chuck Taggart talks about New Orleans’ rich musical history, and we hear many examples.
Are alternative universes purely the stuff of make believe? Or could they actually exist?
These days beauty’s got a complicated reputation. One professor of literature and aesthetics at Harvard is giving beauty a makeover.
Journalist Naomi Klein is in Paris covering the Climate Summit. She says if we're serious about climate change, we need to confront capitalism itself.
Eric Kandel has spent a lifetime studying the science of memory and picked up a Nobel Prize while he was at it.
Bill Welden, an expert on Tolkien’s Elvish languages, talks about Elvish derivations and vocabulary and remembers his visit to the set of the “The Lord of the Rings” movie.
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