Dec 10th, 2009 · With all the high-tech attractions in Times Square, holiday tourists flocking to something that was created 500 years ago. Curators took the sketches and fragments from Leonarda Da Vinci to figure out how to build them. Among the toughest things to recreate: a harpsichord that can be played while walking.
Nov 21st, 2009 · The historic health care overhaul plan proposed by Congressional Democrats makes its way to the Senate for a test vote tonight. The sweeping legislation sets the stage for a showdown between Republicans and a fragmented Democratic majority. Sixty votes are required to advance the bill toward full debate. Host Scott Simon speaks with Sen. Dick Durbin, the majority whip of the Senate.
Nov 21st, 2009 · The historic health care overhaul plan proposed by Congressional Democrats makes its way to the Senate for a test vote tonight. The sweeping legislation sets the stage for a showdown between Republicans and a fragmented Democratic majority. Sixty votes are required to advance the bill toward full debate. Host Scott Simon speaks with Sen. Dick Durbin, the majority whip of the Senate.
Sep 18th, 2009 · Police said Wednesday they found a bone fragment on the property of the Northern California couple charged with kidnapping Jaycee Dugard and hiding her in their backyard for 18 years. Investigators collected the fragments while searching for links between Phillip and Nancy Garrido and two other child abductions in the 1980s.
Aug 21st, 2009 · DNA may be the key to building smaller, faster circuits. So says a reporting in the journal Nature Nanotechnology. IBM research scientist Greg Wallraff explains how folded DNA fragments could be used in the circuitry of the future.
Jul 14th, 2009 · From brief essays combining myth and history, Eduardo Galeano assembles a mosaic of global civilization. Though often depicting cruelty and oppression, the lyrical, accessible in Mirrors: Stories of Almost Everyone is tinged with hope.
May 20th, 2009 · Part Russian mafia thriller, part postmodern reflecting pool of sentence fragments and literary allusions, Jose Manuel Prieto's confounding, glimmering Rex celebrates the aesthetic and spiritual power of writing.
May 16th, 2009 · David Greenberger is a storyteller who finds his stories in some unusual places. He goes to nursing homes and anywhere he can listen to the words of elderly people. Now he has put their fragmented memories to music and shown that even people with Alzheimer's still have something to say.