Martin Gardner was interested in everything and made everything interesting.
Read MoreCritics scoffed but Amory Lovins has stayed on “the soft path” to renewable energy.
Read MoreDespite three jobs — professor, New Yorker writer, mother — Jill Lepore solved the mystery. “Who Killed Truth?”
Read MoreUsing apps and A.I., Cornell’s Lab of O keeps our eyes on the birds.
Read MoreMore than “Henry’s brother,” William James opened his mind to spirits, drugs, life. . .
Read MoreOut of the academy and into the agora, Americans are thinking and questioning in ways that would make Socrates smile.
Read MoreChildren’s TV was a wasteland. Then Joan Ganz Cooney took us all to “Sesame Street.”
Read MoreFrom the trenches of Civil Rights to the concert stage, Bernice Johnson Reagon has sung the praises of black culture.
Read MoreWhen W.E.B. DuBois debated Lothrop Stoddard, white supremacy was laughed off the stage.
Read MoreThink the Midwest is just corn country? The annual Great American Think-off will make you think again.
Read MoreWhen the first blockbuster movie spread dangerous myths, one man rose to challenge them. And seeds were sown.
Read MoreWhen smallpox ravaged Boston, Cotton Mather turned to science to stop this “Destroying Angel.” American medicine was never the same.
Read MoreWhen Will Durant asked the wise about “the meaning of life,” he got the usual answers. Then he asked a prisoner.
Read MoreStudents called Jaime Escalante “Kimo.” He called them his “burros.” But the key to his success was ganas — the drive to succeed. (As seen in “Stand and Deliver.”)
Read MoreDespite his glowing words, Jefferson thought blacks far from equal. Then a single letter took him to task.
Read MoreStepping into Old Growth, Joan Maloof felt the forest. Now she is set on saving “the ancients.”
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