Trevor Paglan is the author of "I Could Tell You But Then You Would Have To Be Destroyed By Me." That's the Latin translation of a patch designed for a top secret Navy air testing station.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Shaun Alexander tells Steve Paulson what chess does for him and why he thinks it’s good for inner city youth.
Some of the greatest trips give us that feeling of traveling back in time. Last summer, Aubrey Ralph did nearly that, when he spent nine days sailing aboard a 200 year old tall ship, across two Great Lakes. He was with the reconstructed U.S. Brig Niagara as she shoved off from her home port in Erie, PA.
Saira Shah tells Jim Fleming how her father used stories to give her a sense of her ethnic cultural birthright and how those stories helped her when she worked in Afghanistan.
Rather than making our stories better - or attempting to stop telling them altogether - Jonathan Harris is helping people combine their stories in a bid to unveil the "ecstatic truth" of human life. Anne Strainchamps asked Harris about his storytelling platform, Cowbird.
Listen to the UNCUT interview here.
Nina Simone's powerful voice and turbulent life are the subjects of an Oscar-nominated documentary, a new biography and a forthcoming Hollywood biopic. But it's her politics that speaks most forcefully to a new generation of African American activists. Biographer Alan Light talks about the incandescent soul singer and Black Power icon.
Sy Montgomery talks about a very personable octopus, and the species's remarkable intelligence.
Jedediah Berry imagines a future where science can unlock buried thoughts.
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