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Alan Alda Has the Zest of Curiosity
AS AN ACTOR, DIRECTOR, AUTHOR, AND PLAYWRIGHT, Alan Alda has contributed richly to our artistic culture. Rather than rest on his laurels, Alda, now in his early 70s, has a new science series on PBS as of 2009.
May 11, 2009
By: Jane Ciabattari
UPDATE: Kids With Cameras IN 2008
An update on Avijit, on of the children born to sex workers in Calcutta's red light district who were featured as the "kids with cameras" in Oscar-winner Zana Briski's workshops documented in "Born Into Brothels."
May 11, 2009
By: Anne Mollegen Smith | Source: NRTA Live & Learn
Yo-Yo Ma and His Passion
Premier cellist Yo-Yo Ma applies his creative energy to bringing musical cultures gloriously together in the Silk Road Project and in residencies at RISD, universities and even New York City high schools.
April 27, 2009
By: Jake Miller | Source: NRTA Live & Learn
Phil Borges Builds Digital Bridges
Though he earned fame as a photographer, Phil Borges is prouder of helping kids around the world learn to bridge cultures.
April 6, 2009
By: Elizabeth Pope | Source: NRTA Live & Learn
Innovator Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
A profile of the professor who's spent a lifetime studying how to increase our capacity for happiness. Inventor of the concept of "flow," the sensation of joy, creativity, total involvement with life; father of the field of positive psychology.
February 23, 2009
By: Alexandra Starr | Source: NRTA Live & Learn
Pulitzer Winner Margaret Edson
Pulitzer winning author of "Wit"—an unvarnished portrayal of a dying scholar undergoing cancer treatment—Margaret Edson sees elementary school teaching as equally mysterious and creative.
January 28, 2009
By: Jake Miller | Source: NRTA Live & Learn
Never Settle! Secrets of an Innovator
Apple CEO Steve Jobs has introduced not just one, but a string of breakthrough products. What's the secret behind his history of second acts?
December 18, 2007
By: Alexandra Starr | Source: NRTA Live & Learn
Richard Dreyfuss's New 'Opus': Championing Civics Lessons and the Tools of Democracy
The Oscar-winning actor has no regrets about his movie career, he says, but he's at a different place in his life now.
August 31, 2007
By: Michele Morris | Source: NRTA Live & Learn
Bringing Astrophysics Down to Earth
A champion of science literacy, Neil deGrasse Tyson, People magazine's "sexiest astrophysicist," says the scientific method is not for nerds only.
November 17, 2006
By: Jake Miller | Source: NRTA Live & Learn
Why Creativity's a Habit and Everyone Can Learn It
Twyla Tharp, the most important choreographer of her generation, shares her very practical ideas on how we all can put our creativity to use.
February 17, 2006
By: Twyla Tharp | Source: NRTA Live & Learn
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