Felicia "Snoop" Pearson, actress on The Wire, connects her life to the HBO series and talks about her new memoir plus light bulbs, DNA and supper clubs.
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Felicia "Snoop" PearsonWhen Art Mirrors Life, on The Wire
Felicia "Snoop" Pearson, actress on The Wire, connects her life to the HBO series and talks about her new memoir.
Grace After Midnight: A Memoir is available for purchase at Amazon.com.
Grace After Midnight: A Memoir is available for purchase at Amazon.com.
Green Light
Jennifer Bogo, senior science editor at Popular Mechanics magazine, and architectural lighting designer Gary Gordon, on why and how people can use compact fluorescent lightbulbs (CFLs).
Popular Mechanics tested a number of CFLs, and you can read their findings here. For ...
Popular Mechanics tested a number of CFLs, and you can read their findings here. For ...
Boing Boing
Xeni Jardin, one of the creators of Boing Boing, talks about television on the internet.
Do You Know Your DNA?
Amy Harmon national correspondent for The New York Times, and author of its series, "The DNA Age", and Matt Crenson, content manager for 23andMe, a web-based DNA-discovery service, talk about the impact of genetic science on American life -- and the gift of DNA mapping.
Dining In
Underground clubs meet fine dining in New York’s supper clubs. Representatives of clubs based in Brooklyn, Queens, and Manhattan talk about this off-beat dining experience. “Danielle” helps run New York Bite Club; "Nancy" is the founder of Williamsburg’s Whisk and Ladle Supperclub, and Tamara Reynolds
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