When photographer Phil Toledano's mother died in 2006, Phil - an only child - became his father's main caregiver. Phil started taking photos of him too. In the beginning, he says, "I was taking photographs for myself. I was recording something for myself." But when he started sharing the pictures online, the response was overwhelming.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Andreas Viestad tells Jim Fleming some of his adventures shooting the “New Scandinavian Cooking” series that aired last year on PBS.
A. J. Jacobs decided to read the entire Encyclopedia Britannica. He tells Steve Paulson why and some of the peculiar facts he picked up along the way.
Los Angeles comic and humor columnist Alan Olifson reads an essay on the dangers of enjoying irony.
Donovan Campbell was a Marine lieutenant who served three combat deployments as a company commander – two in Iraq and one in Afghanistan. He was awarded the Bronze Star with Valor for his time in Iraq.
Anne Strainchamps goes looking for hope about the world's environmental problems among the children of Randall Elementary School in Madison, Wisconsin.
University of Tennessee Associate Professor Amy Elias identifies the three types of postmodernism for Jim Fleming.
Information overload seems to be the quintessential 21st century problem. Actually, people have worried about this for centuries, going back to the ancient Romans. Ann Blair provides a short history of information-gathering.
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