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Science Friday: Study Suggests Earlier Meat Eating in Hominids
Study authors say fossil bones have marks from the tools used for butchering.
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Ad lit.org: A Video Interview With Margarita Engle
Margarita Engle is an award-winning author of books for children, young adults, and adults. The daughter of an American father and Cuban mother, Engle spent her childhood summers in Cuba, where she developed a deep bond with her extended...
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Ad lit.org: A Video Interview With Katherine Paterson
As the daughter of two missionaries, Katherine Paterson spent the first five years of her life in China. When the Japanese invaded during World War II, her family returned to the United States. By the age of 18, Paterson had moved over...
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Ad lit.org: A Video Interview With Norton Juster
Norton Juster was born in 1929 in Brooklyn, New York, and spent his childhood there. Juster, the son of an architect, went on to study architecture at the University of Pennsylvania.
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Ad lit.org: A Video Interview With Sy Montgomery
Sy Montgomery is a lifelong explorer: she has made four trips to Peru and Brazil to study the pink dolphins of the Amazon; and on other expeditions, she was chased by an angry silverback gorilla in Zaire; bitten by a vampire bat in Costa...
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National Endowment for the Arts: The Big Read: The Grapes for Wrath
Resource provides a description and a guide to John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath, with historical information, author biography, discussion questions, and a ten-lesson unit of study including activities, homework assignments, project...
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Ad lit.org: A Video Interview With Deborah Heiligman
Heiligman was born in Allentown, Pennsylvania and lived in the same house her entire childhood. One of her favorite school memories is of her fourth grade teacher, Mrs. Ryan, who created magical reading nooks for her students - like an...
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Ad lit.org: A Video Interview With e.b. Lewis
Earl Bradley (E.B.) Lewis was born on December 16, 1956, in Philadelphia, PA. Inspired by two uncles who were artists, Lewis began taking art classes while he was still in elementary school and developed a particular interest in...
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Ad lit.org: A Video Interview With Marilyn Singer
Marilyn Singer was born in New York City and raised on Long Island. She studied English at City University of New York and Communications at New York University.
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Ad lit.org: A Video Interview With Tanya Lee Stone
Tanya Lee Stone began making up stories when she was a kid. She studied English at Oberlin College and after graduation became a children's book editor in New York City. When Stone moved to Vermont and got her chance to write her first...
Science Friday Initiative
Science Friday: Life Expectancy Dips for Some in the Us
We'll talk with one of the authors of a new study that finds that for some people, in some parts of the US, life expectancy is on the way down, not up.
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Science Friday: For Babies, It's Better to Like What I Like
How green beans, graham crackers, and puppets can give insight into the development of moral behavior. Babies as young as nine months appear to approve of people who like what they like - and approve of being mean to those who don't...
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