Oct 20 Watch 3:48 Encouraging girls to become scientists? It’s not rocket science By PBS News Hour Women in the U.S. receive less than 20 percent of Bachelor's degrees in computer science, engineering and physics. Eileen Pollack, one of the first two women to receive an undergraduate degree in physics at Yale, offers a solution to getting… Continue watching
Sep 02 Watch 3:51 What the Internet’s free culture has cost us in art By PBS News Hour In the burgeoning days of the Internet, everything was free, says author Joshua Cohen. Or at least it felt free. And then he started writing for himself, learning the pride of making something and receiving the spark of recognition. In… Continue watching
Jun 30 Watch 3:48 Why you should always skip your kids’ baseball games By PBS News Hour America has a problem with youth sports, says author Daniel Pink, and that problem is the parents. In our NewsHour Essays series, Pink shares his solution. Continue watching
Dec 13 Watch Ann Patchett lets readers into her personal life in new collection of essays By PBS News Hour Ann Patchett lets readers into her personal life in new collection of essays… Continue watching
Jan 31 Watch Journalist, Author Roger Rosenblatt Outlines His 4 Reasons to Write Roger Rosenblatt -- novelist, playwright, journalist and, of course, NewsHour essayist for many years -- also teaches writing. His latest book, "Unless It Moves The Human Heart: The Craft and Art of Writing," is a based on a class he… Continue watching