Hawking.
If you can, watch. It may not be exactly historically accurate but it's -"there's a word that physicists like to use, very occasionally . . . 'beautiful'" on so many levels. I love science. I love faith. I love determination and inspiration and getting off the train to test an idea right now; I love collaboration and recognition of ( Read more... )

Alice Walker on Faith, Nature and Social Activism
Thursday, December 03, 2009

By WNYC Culture

If you wish to make
An apple pie from scratch
You must first
Invent
The universe...

Lyrics here.
More versions, and a zip2 containing all these versions.

Including Ella Fitzgerald.

Still have not found either Joan Baez or Judy Collins, though.

March 13, 2007
A Place to Turn When a Newborn Is Fated to Die
By NEELA BANERJEEMINNEAPOLIS - The day after Alaina Kilibarda was born, her breathing started to falter, as her family knew it might. During the pregnancy, doctors had told James and Jill Kilibarda that their baby had a lethal genetic problem that would probably end her life within hours ( Read more... )