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Art Beat | Conversation: Colum McCann, National Book Award Winner for Fiction | Online NewsHour | PB
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On an August morning in 1974, a man named Philippe Petit steps off of the roof of the World Trade Center's South Tower and onto a tightrope. On the ground, New Yorkers look up in disbelief as the man walks, runs, dancing back and forth between the Twin Towers: "Up there, at the height of a hundred a...
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It has happened with each of our children around the age of four. "Papa, you are brown!" Lucy proclaimed while she stroked his arm the other day. "What color are you?" he asked. "I don't know..." she giggled. "I'm cream." she finally replied. "You aren't brown?" he returned playfully. "No, I'm cream...
PBS Perfectly timed for Black Friday, we welcome to the PBS Video Portal FRONTLINE's "The Card Game," an investigation into the consumer loan industry.
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Investigating the consumer loan industry and what's ahead...
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The premise was straightforward enough: a free weekly newspaper of fake headlines, all of them jokes, complete with articles and images. Now celebrating its 21st year, the Onion has fine tuned this formula, publishing consistently funny -- sometimes caustic -- satire of political figures, the media ...
PBS Here's wishing you a happy, safe and healthy Thanksgiving, from all of us at PBS, to all of our friends on Facebook.
PBS This holiday season let PBS Video help make your celebrations more memorable. Watch full-length online videos helping you create magnificent meals, desserts, and more.
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Tomorrow we'll gather friends from around the world to celebrate what means the very most--family, friendship and the kind of connection that makes love, joy and happiness possible. And to make sure our gratitude generates hope right beside our friends in Tanzania, we'll also have a computer set up ...
PBS NOVA explores the origins of our sleeping excursions, in "What Are Dreams," which has just been added to the PBS Video Portal.
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Psychologists and brain scientists have new answers to an age-old question.
Art Beat | Conversation: Phillip Hoose, National Book Award Winner for Young People's Literature | O
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Books about the Civil Rights movement are filled with seminal figures who rise to the rank of legend when the moment arises, but for every hero's great act there are scores of smaller demonstrations of courage that get eclipsed. In one case, a 15-year-old girl's story was nearly forgotten if not for...
PBS New to the PBS Video Portal: Elbert Hubbard: An American Original.
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Elbert Hubbard, rebel of the Arts & Crafts Movement.
PBS PBS's "Remotely Connected" blog, in which we invite outside bloggers to write about upcoming PBS programs, features cartoonist & designer Austin Kleon on tonight's NOVA episode, "What Are Dreams." Be sure to check out the illustration accompanying Kleon's Remotely Connected post (see here in the thumbnail image).
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"I like to sleep so I can tune in and see what's happening in that big show. People say we sleep a third of our lives away, why I'd rather dream than sit around bleakly with bores in "real" life. My dreams...are fantastically real movies of what's actually going on anyway. Other dream-record keepers...
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John Shea at Stony Brook University is one of the best stone toolmakers on the planet today, keeping alive the technologies used by our most ancient ancestors.
PBS Does holiday time with family help us prioritize what’s important in life? Michele talks about resilience and re-thinking happiness while dealing with ovarian cancer, from THIS EMOTIONAL LIFE (Jan. 4-6, 2010).
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Resilience and emotional well-being are often tested the most during times of an unexpected change in life circumstance or bad news but can also lead to contemplating one's life in a new way. ...
