The older I get, the more I fall behind the modern culture.  For example, while taping a Just Read It segment on Colm Toibin’s fictionalized biography of Thomas Mann, I was stunned to learn that one of my young guests knew little about one of the twentieth century’s greatest

Data dumps aren’t the sole province of whistle blowers like Chelsea Manning and Edward Snowden.  In the name of transparency, our government unloads reams of data on a regular basis, so much so, that the search for specific information is like a forced to march though the dessert i

When I was in college, I became aware of a popular publication called, The Family of Man.   Between its covers were photographs from around the world, depicting how people in different countries, cultures and ages lived.  No words accompanied the photographs and  none were necessa

The other day, a wide-eyed employee at my retirement center approached me as I was headed for the dining room. “I just looked you up on Wikipedia.  Gosh, I didn’t know your were famous.”   I laughed. Being on Wikipedia doesn’t make me famous.  In fact, I recall an insider