William Tsutsui tells Anne Strainchamps about the original Godzilla and why he became a cultural icon in Japan.
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Geneticist Steve Jones tells Jim Fleming that biologically men, who have a Y chromosome, are the second sex.
Young activist Roni Krouzman tells Anne Strainchamps what it was like to participate in the demonstrations in Seattle, and how today’s protests resemble street theater.
"I can't remember a time when I wasn't drawing," says Molly Crabapple. "I can't not draw. It's how I relate to the world." And Crabapple's art - her drawings, paintings and posters - have ignited various political causes, from the Occupy Movement to protests against the treatment of prisoners in Guantanamo. She tells Anne Strainchamps how art can be a political tool.
Theseus killed the Minotaur in the maze in Crete thousands of years ago. Well, according to Steven Sherrill, the Minotaur is now a short- order cook in the American South.
Ward Cunningham invented the wiki in 1995. Can the wiki way save the internet?
“Buzkashi Boys” was one of the film shorts nominated for an Oscar this year. This is a coming of age story set in Afghanistan’s national sport, Buzkashi. It's a game of horse polo played with a dead goat instead of a ball.
Paul Koudounaris has spent the past decade traveling around the world, climbing into church crypts and bone chambers and taking photos at over 250 burial sites in 30 countries. He's discovered chapels decorared with skeletons and underground caves filled with skulls—among other things. In this interview, he tells us how he began his obsession with displays of death.
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