Ireland’s verdant fields are not the nation’s only extraordinary natural features. Sculpted millions of years ago by the advance and retreat of vast shields of ice, the Emerald Isle harbors a wealth of wildlife among its craggy mountains, fog-shrouded coastlines, steep gorges, and vast networks of inland waterways. Watch now…
A new study provides fascinating insight into how we recall experiences. Led by Dr. Itzhak Fried of UCLA, it reports that the neurons we use when we experience an event are reactivated when we recall that event later on. Science writer Benedict Carey and Daniel Schacter of Harvard University discuss.
The documentary “Where We Stand: America’s Schools in the 21st Century” consists of five reports about the challenges and successes of education in America through the stories of real schools, teachers, parents, students and administrators. NewsHour’s Judy Woodruff hosts. Watch now.
Richard Schickel, director of AMERICAN MASTERS’ “You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story,” discusses the making of the new 3-part series. Watch now…
Psychologist and Democratic political consultant Drew Westen, the author of “The Political Brain,” talks to NOW’s David Brancaccio about how appealing to voters’ emotions reaps bigger electoral rewards than hammering …
The domain google.com was registered on September 15, 1997. Originally the company used a Stanford website with the domain google.stanford.edu. Google, Inc. was formally incorporated on Sept. 7, 1998, at a friend’s garage in Menlo Park, CA. See some interviews about Google as the company turns 10….
What happens when America’s airwaves fill with hate? The JOURNAL traveled to Knoxville, where a recent shooting at the Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church has left the pastor asking what …
Check out this clip of “Pingu,” modified by the scientists in Oregon to include strange grammatical constructions. They want to see how brains react to mistakes in grammar, even when the listener isn’t fluent in the language being spoken! How would your brain react? Watch now…
Rafael Pi Roman hosts a half-hour look at how 9/11 is still affecting the lives of many New Yorkers. The program explores the difficulties that have plagued the rebuilding effort. We also meet some of the people suffering from severe health problems because of their work at ground zero, and profile people who lost family or friends on 9/11. Watch.
Innovative and painstakingly thorough novelist and nonfiction writer David Foster Wallace died this weekend at age 46. He in recent years had continued to publish but also was a professor at Pomona College in Southern California. You can watch a few interviews Wallace did with Charlie Rose more than 10 years ago…read more.
