Education
This Colorado school librarian teaches research skills through murder mysteries
Tobye Ertelt wants people to know that, contrary to popular opinion, being a school librarian is about a lot more than shelving books and reading.
Siddhartha Mukherjee
David Rubenstein’s skillful questioning of acclaimed writers like Robert A. Caro, Ron Chernow, Doris Kearns Goodwin, and many others effectively takes us behind the scenes, enabling a rare insight into the American story and a real sense of how history gets made.
Siddhartha Mukherjee
History with David Rubenstein Episode 4 | 26m 40s | CC
In the late 1600s, separated by the North Sea, English polymath Robert Hooke and Dutch cloth-merchant Antonie van Leeuwenhoek looked through their handmade microscopes. What they saw introduced a radical concept that swept through biology and medicine: complex living organisms are made up of tiny, self-contained, self-regulating units. Hooke christened them “cells.”
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New public art exhibition to take off at Denver International Airport
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