Sep 13 Watch 2:47 For this photographer, following the storm produces awe-inspiring results By PBS News Hour In our NewsHour Shares moment of the day, we look at the work of Arizona photographer Mike Olbinski. He goes where the storm goes -- to photograph timelapse videos. Olbinski’s videos have been used in commercials, documentaries and even feature… Continue watching
Sep 13 Watch 7:39 Novelist Ann Patchett on how independent bookstores build community By PBS News Hour If you shop at the East Nashville Farmers’ Market you can buy fruits and vegetables; but you can also meet a famous author with a stop by the traveling bookmobile. Ann Patchett is a co-owner of the Parnassus Books, founded… Continue watching
Sep 13 This new machine can read book pages without cracking the cover By Nsikan Akpan A new scanner, developed by engineers at MIT and Georgia Tech, can read a book without cracking the cover. Continue reading
Sep 10 Watch 3:52 These vivid NYC murals spotlight climate-threatened birds By PBS News Hour According to the National Audubon Society, climate change poses a serious threat to a large number of North America’s birds. But a street art project in New York City aims to call attention to their plight by creating large-scale murals… Continue watching
Sep 10 What happened to the remnants of the World Trade Center? By Michael D. Regan The artifacts come in various forms and sizes, collected from the wreckage of the World Trade Center buildings in the months following the attacks of Sept. 11. Continue reading
Sep 09 What it was like to watch the 9/11 attacks from your classroom window By Mary Jo Brooks On Sept. 11, 2001, Annie Thoms was 25 and just starting her second year teaching English at Stuyvesant High School, which is located just four blocks from Ground Zero. In the months that followed, she worked with her students to… Continue reading
Sep 08 Watch 5:13 Scotland's national poet writes for those who've been asked 'where are you from?' By PBS News Hour Jackie Kay is Scotland's first black national poet. Adopted as a child, much of her poetry and prose speaks to her own experience of not feeling entirely welcome in her own country. “I wrote the poems that I wanted to… Continue watching
Sep 08 Watch 2:31 An illustrator explains the art of making pictures speak to children By PBS News Hour Christian Robinson says he had a hard time reading as a child, and so he didn’t have a great relationship with books. But he could always find solace in drawing. Today, he has turned his childhood hobby into a career… Continue watching
Sep 08 Real-life investigators object to portrayal in 'Sully' movie By Joan Lowy, Associated Press WASHINGTON — Losing thrust in both engines but still managing to land an airliner full of people in the Hudson River without the loss of a single life is plenty dramatic. But the drama in "Sully," the movie about the… Continue reading
Sep 06 Mumbai meets Muddy Waters in a bluesy tribute to Bollywood By Kelly Whalen San Jose bluesman Aki Kumar has just released an album that combines old songs from Indian blockbuster films of his childhood with Chicago-style blues. Continue reading