Ed Young says that even basic literacy in Chinese requires memorizing 4,000 characters.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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No matter what genre you’re writing for, adding a cello can increase the melancholy.
Charles Monroe-Kane tells a story from his car-racing background.
David Kilcullen, an advisor to former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, and an architect of the Troop Surge in Iraq under General Petraeus, talks about the problem with traditional counter-insurgency efforts.
Daniel Matt tells Steve Paulson that the Big Bang Theory is science's creation myth...
Craig Harline tells Anne Strainchamps how Sunday has evolved over the past several centuries.
David Dalton and his sister were assistants on Warhol's early Pop Art paintings when they were in their teens...
Bennett Alan Weinberg talks with Anne Strainchamps about how little we actually know about the vegetable alkaloid we know as caffeine.
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