Mar 09 Are you celebrating Pi Day? By Rebecca Jacobson, Inside Energy Saturday, March 14, is a special holiday for math-lovers. Known as Pi Day, a holiday meant to celebrate the mathematical constant pi. This irrational number is the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its radius, and it starts with 3.1415926535897...the… Continue reading
Mar 04 Quick! What the heck is Purim? By Wendy Thomas Russell I always think of the Bible as sort of dry reading — difficult to understand, weighted down by archaic language and vague descriptions, full of stories that just kind of go on and on. But, of course, that’s not always… Continue reading
Dec 24 Watch 6:48 Your family’s political fights don’t have to ruin Christmas By PBS News Hour The holiday season is a time of joy, love and the occasional family brawl over politics. Steven Petrow of The Washington Post joins Hari Sreenivasan to discuss how to make it through the big family dinner while staying on speaking… Continue watching
Dec 22 Poll: even non-religious Americans give gifts over the holidays By Jennifer Agiesta and Emily Swanson, Associated Press Christmastime is here and a new poll reveals the cards and gifts that are part of celebrating the holiday are ubiquitous, even among those who don't share the Christian beliefs behind the story of the Magi who gave the first… Continue reading
Dec 19 12 Days of NewsHour: Behind-the-scenes timelapse holiday greeting By Colleen Shalby On the twelfth day of 12 Days of NewsHour, we give to you: a timelapse behind-the-scenes holiday greeting. Continue reading
Dec 19 Celebrate 12 days of NewsHour with 12 unique gifts By Nora Daly To show our appreciation for our audience, PBS NewsHour will be unveiling 12 gifts over the next 12 days. Check back here each day, from Dec. 8-19, for a new gift that you can easily download or print out right… Continue reading
Dec 19 How do interfaith families navigate the holidays? By Laura Santhanam More than one-quarter of married people in the United States lived in households that were religiously mixed. During the holidays, these interfaith families often either practice religious traditions according to their heritage or adopt more secular holiday observances. Continue reading
Dec 18 12 Days of NewsHour: Download the 2014 Shields and Brooks Guide to Holiday Civility By Nora Daly Recognizing that Thanksgiving has passed, and that many of the social and political issues facing the nation have changed, we are offering an updated version of "The Mark Shields and David Brooks’ Guide to Holiday Civility."… Continue reading
Dec 09 12 Days of NewsHour: Cross stitch our logo By Nora Daly Snowed-in? Curl up by the fire and fight-off cabin fever while creating your very own NewsHour logo cross-stitch. The pattern we’ve provided was created by former NewsHour staffer Justin Myers. See his finished product below, and share a picture of… Continue reading
Dec 08 12 days of NewsHour: The first* 4K fireplace video on YouTube By Travis Daub Despite its realism, our 4K video doesn't actually generate heat, so it won't dry your mittens. Continue reading