Helen Turrner is the "Queen of Barbecue," the owner and pitmaster of Helen's Bar-B-Q in Brownsville, Tennessee. She's one of the few women pitmasters.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Simon Wilde is one of the scientists who found a tiny, four billion year old zircon in Australia. He brought it to his colleague Joe Skullan at the University of Wisconsin and they established that it’s the oldest object on earth...
Philosopher Rebecca Goldstein says philosophy is still evolving, and continues to shape our values. She talks about her long fascination with the granddaddy of all philosophers, Plato.
Thebe Medupe is an astrophysicist and producer of the documentary film "Cosmic Africa." He tells Anne Strainchamps about spending time with the Kalahari Bushmen...
The protest at the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation has caught fire. Its camp is now larger than most small towns in North Dakota. The protest is not just about an oil pipeline from North Dakota to Illinois. It's about water. Journalist John Fleck, who's spent decades writing about water disputes in the West, tells Anne Strainchamps how the Standing Rock protest figures into this history.
Composer Stephen Paulus sits at the piano keyboard and talks with Jim Fleming about how he developed the music for a group of six poems he set for the Festival Choir of Madison.
The novelist and feminist critic talks about tackling her trolls and “writing to the point of uncomfortability.”
Tariq Ali tells Steve Paulson why many other countries view the actions of the American government as arrogant and imperialistic.
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