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Aesop's Fables: The Two Frogs

by Aesop The Farmer and the ViperThe Cobbler Turned DoctorThe Two Frogs Two Frogs were neighbours. One lived in a marsh, where there was plenty of water, which frogs love: the other in a…

Aesop's Fables: The Fox Who Served a Lion

by Aesop Hercules and MinervaThe Quack DoctorThe Fox Who Served a Lion A Lion had a Fox to attend on him, and whenever they went hunting the Fox found the prey and the Lion fell upon it…

Poems by Emily Dickinson: LIII

by EmilyDickinsonThirstCharlotte Brontí«'s GraveLIII A clock stopped — not the mantel's; Geneva's farthest skill Can't put the puppet bowing That just now dangled still. An awe came…

The History of Aspirin

The Question: A chemical first prepared by Felix Hoffman in 1897 and patented in 1899 became one of the most globally popular drugs of all time. Name it…

Now and Again

CBSFriday 9:00–10:00 p.m.Cast:Eric Close, Margaret Colin, Heather Matarazzo, and Roger Singer Not to be confused with ABC's Once and Again, Now and Again is billed as an action-comedy-drama-…

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

Neil DeGrasse Tyson is one of America's best known celebrity scientists, an astrophysicist from New York who's been hailed as the pop culture heir to Carl Sagan. DeGrasse Tyson grew up in the Bronx…

Carl Sagan

Astronomer and science popularizer Carl Sagan was best known for his 1980 documentary TV series Cosmos: A Personal Voyage. The highly successful program, on public television, spawned a bestselling…

Janet Yellen

Janet Yellen is an economist who has served as chairman of the Federal Reserve and is President Joseph Biden's Secretary of the Treasury. Janet Yellen is a 1967 graduate of Brown University, and she…

James Patterson

One of the best selling authors in the world, James Patterson is known for writing dozens of mystery thrillers, including the Alex Cross series of detective stories. He's also known for using some of…

Steven Chu

Steven Chu is the Nobel-winning scientist who became U.S. Secretary of Energy in 2009. Chu comes from a science-minded family: his father, Ju Chin Chu, moved from China to attend the Massachusetts…