Jason Cohen (with Steve Okazaki) made the wrenching documentary “Black Tar Heroin.” The film follows the lives of five young heroin addicts in San Francisco.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Maria Tatar is the author of "Enchanted Hunters: The Power of Stories in Childhood." She talks with Steve Paulson about what makes fairy tales so compelling to children.
Joseph Romm talks about how Iceland plans to become the first country in the world to become 100% independent of fossil fuels by using their boundless geothermal energy to create hydrogen cells to power their motor vehicles.
Lorne Ladner tells Jim Fleming that accepting the inevitability of one’s own death leads a person to truly appreciate living while you can.
Historian Jeremi Suri gives a new take on the sixties. Suri says national leaders began to cooperate with each other because none of them could communicate with the youth at home.
Duke University neuroscientist Miguel Nicolelis talks about the possibility of upgrading our brains with computer chips.
Karal Ann Marling tells Anne Strainchamps that American Christmas traditions led to an improvement in the status of women and helped nurture manufacturing industries from candy to cardboard.
Biographer Robert Caro tells the remarkable story of how Lyndon Johnson became president after being humiliated as vice-president by John and Robert Kennedy.
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