Close-Up with Ada Lovelace: The First Computer Programmer
Ada Lovelace was born in London in 1815, the only child of the poet Lord Byron, and was raised on an unusual education that combined languages, music, and needlework with…
Close-Up with Dolly Parton and the Imagination Library
Dolly Parton wrote her first song at six, about a doll her mother made from a corn cob. Decades later, remembering that her father never learned to read, she founded…
Fatherhood in the Animal Kingdom
This Father’s Day, pair quality time with purposeful learning by watching “Fatherhood in the Animal Kingdom”, a 2024 BBC Earth short documentary that follows wildlife fathers — from seahorses to…
