Totally Genius
The smartest scientists in the world still haven’t solved a basic question: are minds like Shakespeare, Mozart, and Einstein born or made?
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Frontiers Of Flavour
A team of explorers follows in the footsteps of Marco Polo—only this time the quest is for the world’s most elusive sensations of taste
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Among a Lot of Poems
Among a lot of poems There was one I could never quite bring to mind Except that I had composed it A while back Going down this street This street …
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If Things Happen for a Reason
This will be something to tell our children. That’s the first thing she remembers him saying to her. They were in a taxicab and he was holding her hand. She …
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Has Childhood Gone AWOL?
Both picture books and young readers seem to be disappearing as a new target market takes shape
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Trauma Mama
Angry, eloquent, fragile, native artist Rebecca Belmore takes her new work to the Venice Biennale
Read More Lament for Federico García Lorca
In the hour before dawn They put you on their stage In the hour before dawn Near the Fountain of Tears In the hour before dawn Beside a lame schoolteacher …
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