Katha Pollitt's Dangerous Idea? Your child is not a special snowflake.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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National Book Award winner Andrea Barrett writes some of the most beautiful fiction we know about scientists. The stories in her new collection, "Archangel" explore the history of knowledge through five linked characters. After reading it, we're awfully glad she gave up biology to write fiction.
Bernd Heinrich tells Steve Paulson about frogs that survive being frozen solid and bears that convert nitrogen into protein while they hibernate sleep.
In his book "Back to Our Future" David Sirota says the proof is in the staying power of 80s pop culture.
Emily Rapp had her foot amputated when she was 4, and the rest of the leg at age 8.
Rapper Baba Brinkman tells Anne Strainchamps that Geoffrey Chaucer’s work has a lot in common with the language of hip hop music.
Franz Lidz is the author of "Ghosty Men: The Strange but True Story of the Collyer Brothers, New York's Greatest Hoarders."
If there is an evolutionary imperative for running, maybe runner's high holds a clue. Dave Raichlen conducted a study about runner's high using humans, dogs and ferrets.
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