Henrietta Lacks was a poor, African American woman who died of cervical cancer at the age of 31...
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Jeanine Basinger tells Anne Strainchamps how the movie studios manufactured stars from the 1930s to the 1950s.
An alliance between Ralph Nader and Ron Paul? It may sound surprising, but they've found common ground. Nader explains how the Left and Right can come together on key issues.
Many things can evoke a memory. Like a smell. Or a touch. When Mamek Khadem wanted to evoke the memory of her native Iran during the Islamic revolution in 1979, she did it with music.
Kay Redfield Jamison tells Jim Fleming that suicide is epidemic in our society and usually associated with a major mental illness.
Richard Hand describes several of the programs that made that period the Golden Age of radio.
Jill Fredston and her husband spend months every year rowing in the Arctic. And she tells a whale of a fish story!
Myhrvold talks about inventing and his six-volume, 2400-page, 52 pound cookbook called Modernist Cuisine.
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