Feb 08 Watch Shields, Brooks on Bush Email Hacking and Super Bowl Results Shields and Brooks on Bush Email Hacking and Super Bowl Results… Continue watching
Feb 08 Watch Shields and Brooks on DOJ Drone Memo, Brennan Hearing, Syria Strategy Shields and Brooks on DOJ Drone Memo, Brennan Hearing, Syria Strategy… Continue watching
Feb 08 Earliest Placental Mammal Described in Breathtaking Detail Some 65 million years ago, an asteroid possibly as big as Mount Everest plowed into the Earth, wiping about 70 percent of all species, including dinosaurs, off the planet. Why this event killed off the dinosaurs but spared other species,… Continue reading
Feb 07 Watch To Lower Dropout Rates, Finding Potential Where Support Systems Are Lacking To Lower Dropout Rates, Finding Potential Where Support Systems Are Lacking… Continue watching
Feb 04 Watch A Checklist to Keep Good Teachers in the Classroom Good teachers can help students stay in school and keep them from dropping out. But what must schools do to keep top teachers from burning out and leaving the field? Hari Sreenivasan has the story of a Connecticut school that… Continue watching
Feb 04 Now Is the Winter of Our Discovery: Tracing History Through DNA By Ray Suarez Project osteologist Jo Appleby points out damage to a skull, believed to be that of Richard III, during a news conference in Leicester, central England, on Monday. Photo by Darren Staples/Reuters. King Richard III, depicted by some as a wicked,… Continue reading
Feb 01 Shields and Brooks on Scott Brown, Super Bowl and Deer Antler Spray By Hari Sreenivasan On this edition of the Doubleheader, where we tackle the sport of politics and the politics of sports, syndicated columnist Mark Shields and New York Times columnist David Brooks begin with the decision by former Massachusetts Sen. Scott Brown to… Continue reading
Feb 01 Watch Shields and Brooks on Hagel’s Rough Hearing, Movement on Immigration Shields and Brooks on Hillary Clinton, Hearings on Hagel, Gun Control… Continue watching
Feb 01 Evangelicals Use Bible to Champion Immigration Reform National evangelical leaders are coming together in an expansive grassroots effort to pass bipartisan immigration reform, including an easier path to citizenship. These leaders hope to change many evangelicals' minds about immigration through theology. The most recent push… Continue reading
Feb 01 Whip Scorpions and Jungle Nymphs: Behind the Scenes at the Insect Zoo An eastern lubber grasshopper, or Romalea guttata sits on a leaf at the Insect Zoo at the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History. Photos by Jenny Marder. And now, an end-of-the-week pause to celebrate insects and the people who love… Continue reading