May 25 Watch ‘The Swerve’: When an Ancient Text Reaches Out and Touches Us 'The Swerve': When an Ancient Text Reaches Out and Touches Us… Continue watching
May 24 How the Nuclear Bomb Gave Us the Computer EmbedVideo(3476, 480, 320); At the close of World War II, in Princeton, N.J.'s Institute for Advanced Study, an extension of the Manhattan Project was busy building a bomb that would be a thousand times more powerful than the… Continue reading
May 24 Watch U.S.-Pakistani Relations Roiled Again With Punishment of Man Who Helped CIA A year after a U.S. raid killed Osama Bin Laden at his compound in Abbottabad, a Pakistani court sentenced Dr. Shakil Afridi to 33 years in prison this week for helping the CIA locate the al-Qaida leader. Margaret Warner reports… Continue watching
May 21 Weekly Poem: ‘Visiting Auschwitz’ Elana Bell is the author of "Eyes, Stone" (2012, LSU Press), winner of the Walt Whitman Award for 2011. Her poems have appeared in Harvard Review, Massachusetts Review, CALYX, and elsewhere. Bell is the writer-in-residence at the Bronx Academy of… Continue reading
May 18 Chronic Absenteeism — Not a ‘Casual Decision’ While attendance remains somewhat consistent between third and fifth grade, chronic absenteeism climbs in middle school and peaks by the twelfth grade. (Courtesy Get Schooled/The Johns Hopkins University) There's an assumption that in order to do well in school,… Continue reading
May 17 SpaceX Readies for Historic Launch EmbedVideo(3389, 482, 304); On Saturday, if all goes as planned, the privately owned spaceflight company SpaceX will launch its Dragon capsule into low-Earth orbit and three days later dock with the International Space Station. It would… Continue reading
May 17 Running for President: Chronicling Almost 200 Years of Propaganda Published by the Library of Congress, "Presidential Campaign Posters" is a visual anthology of election season artwork -- images that capture the public sentiment, issues and prevailing design trends of a given campaign era. The book showcases images… Continue reading
May 16 What Does a First-Grade Journalist Look Like? The journalism classroom at Melrose Elementary. When my colleague Mike Fritz and I headed down to St. Petersburg, Fla., recently, we knew we were going to see young journalists at work. It's not too hard to imagine that middle… Continue reading
May 16 Paralyzed Woman Powers Robotic Arm With Her Mind On April 12, 2011, a 59-year-old woman with a sensor implanted in her brain picked up her cinnamon latte with a robotic arm, brought it to her lips and took a sip through a straw using only her thoughts. It… Continue reading
May 16 Watch Showdown Ahead? Analyzing the Politics Behind Renewed Debt Debate Battle lines were being drawn again Wednesday for a new fight over raising the U.S. borrowing limit, foreshadowing a replay of last year's stalemate. Judy Woodruff, Todd Zwillich of "The Takeaway" and Roll Call's Steve Dennis discuss the renewed war… Continue watching