Ireland’s verdant fields are not the nation’s only extraordinary natural features. Sculpted millions of years ago by the advance and retreat of vast shields of ice, the Emerald Isle harbors a wealth of wildlife among its craggy mountains, fog-shrouded coastlines, steep gorges, and vast networks of inland waterways. Watch now…
The documentary “Where We Stand: America’s Schools in the 21st Century” consists of five reports about the challenges and successes of education in America through the stories of real schools, teachers, parents, students and administrators. NewsHour’s Judy Woodruff hosts. Watch now.
Richard Schickel, director of AMERICAN MASTERS’ “You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story,” discusses the making of the new 3-part series. Watch now…
Psychologist and Democratic political consultant Drew Westen, the author of “The Political Brain,” talks to NOW’s David Brancaccio about how appealing to voters’ emotions reaps bigger electoral rewards than hammering …
Are teachers with the highest qualifications the “best” teachers in the classroom? Are teacher’s SAT scores and what college he or she attended good indicators of whether they are going …
Check out this clip of “Pingu,” modified by the scientists in Oregon to include strange grammatical constructions. They want to see how brains react to mistakes in grammar, even when the listener isn’t fluent in the language being spoken! How would your brain react? Watch now…
Meet Bills, a flautist from Julliard premiering his own composition at the Miller Theater at Columbia U. Learn why he chose to play the flute, his advice for younger flautists, and the depth he finds in classical music. Watch him perform an elegy by composer Jean Danjean. Watch now…
Rafael Pi Roman hosts a half-hour look at how 9/11 is still affecting the lives of many New Yorkers. The program explores the difficulties that have plagued the rebuilding effort. We also meet some of the people suffering from severe health problems because of their work at ground zero, and profile people who lost family or friends on 9/11. Watch.
Innovative and painstakingly thorough novelist and nonfiction writer David Foster Wallace died this weekend at age 46. He in recent years had continued to publish but also was a professor at Pomona College in Southern California. You can watch a few interviews Wallace did with Charlie Rose more than 10 years ago…read more.
Developer Larry Silverstein held the lease on the World Trade Center on 9/11, and he has been a major player in the rebuilding saga at ground zero. Seven years later, there’s not a single completed structure on the site (except 7 World Trade Center, which was built privately by Silverstein). Watch interview…











