Cary Sudler is descended from a slave-holding plantation family. He discovered that he shares the Sudler name with both black and white families in the area around the old plantation.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Rapper Boots Riley is an activist who uses hip hop lyrics like a political weapon.
Coral reefs and many of the oceans' marvels may disappear before this century ends, according to a new scientific study. Science writer Elizabeth Kolbert says we're facing the sixth great extinction. In this extended interview, she tells Steve Paulson stories from the front lines of the fight against extinction, from Panama to Australia's Great Barrier Reef.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie splits her time between the U.S. and her native Nigeria...
Betool Khedairi grew up in Iraq with an Iraqi father and a Scottish mother.
In the days of tall ships and explorers, people collected exotic wonders in cabinets of curiosities, wunderkameren. Writer and teacher Heather McDougal has long loved those early days of science. Her blog's called "Cabinet of Wonders."
Etienne Van Heerdon tells Steve Paulson that many of his fellow writers are obsessed with his country’s history and that they could always say things in fiction that they could never get away with in journalism.
Filmmaker Werner Herzog bookmarks "The Peregrine" by J.A. Baker,
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