07:11 September 29, 2022
In a past report of Everyday Grammar, we talked about how to describe your favorite character from a book you had read. We looked at the children’s b…
11:27 September 23, 2022
We present the first of four parts of the short story "William Wilson," by Edgar Allan Poe. The story was originally adapted and recorded by the U.S…
04:20 September 23, 2022
Hello! This week on Ask a Teacher, we will answer a question from Jego in Ethiopia about the difference between “remember” and “recall.” Question: De…
04:33 September 22, 2022
Imagine you are talking with a friend. Your friend tells you that they have a big test or job interview coming up soon. This is a good time to wish t…
28:40 August 3, 2018
00:00:03 ALICE WINKLER: During your lifetime, there’s a very good chance that one of Robert Langer’s innovations will save your life: a cancer treat…
36:04 July 27, 2018
00:00:03 ALICE WINKLER: Now there’s no official, scientific scale, of course, that measures risk tolerance. Not that I know of. If there were, I’m p…
44:21 July 20, 2018
00:00:03 ALICE WINKLER: In 1996, a New York City public school teacher, who was getting ready to retire, wrote his first book. It was a memoir about…
29:11 July 13, 2018
00:00:00 MUSIC 00:00:01 ALICE WINKLER: There are only two people who’ve been CEO at a Fortune 500 company for more than 50 years. One of them is …
40:38 July 6, 2018
00:00:00 HARRY BURNS: I love that you get cold when it's 71 degrees out. I love that it takes you an hour-and-a-half to order a sandwich. I love tha…
32:48 June 29, 2018
00:00:01 BILL RUSSELL: My life has always been like sitting on the banks of a river and watching the world go by because I was so fortunate that the…
52:59 June 22, 2018
00:00:00 ALICE WINKLER: When Sonia Sotomayor was little, really little, her grandmother would host a get-together pretty much every Saturday night a…