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.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Should the Star Spangled Banner really be our national anthem? John Hasse gives a short history of patriotic songs, and suggests alternatives for the national anthem.
Sometimes making music new is as simple as adding a few new elements. For ground-breaking jazz composer Maria Schneider, that meant adding words to her work.
Professional bladesmith Richard Furrer tells Jim Fleming about “Dragonslayer,” a blade forged from ultra-strong steel created with the help of a Northwestern University computer model.
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.
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.
Patrick McGilligan talks about how Alfred Hitchcock chose his leading men, and what makes “Vertigo” the cinematic classic it is.
Novelist Philip Roth talks with Steve Paulson about his work and says Nathan Zukerman had made his final appearance in Roth's new novel, "Exit Ghost."
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