There’s an emerging option for people with severe facial disfigurements. The first facial transplant happened in France in 2006. Since then about 30 people have undergone the grueling surgery. In 2012, Dr. Eduardo Rodriguez led a team at the University of Maryland Medical Center that attempted the most extensive face transplant yet.
You can also listen to the extended interview with Dr. Rodriguez.
Graphic war photos can be very powerful, but they often elicit complicated and unforeseen reactions among viewers.
Nic Pizzolatto tells Steve Paulson about the creative influences that inspired his show, "True Detective."
British journalist Jay Griffiths talks with Jim Fleming about the ways different cultures around the world think about time. Her book is “A Sideways Look at Time.”
Wisconsin Public Television producer Patty Loew talks with Anne Strainchamps about her TV documentary "Way of the Warrior".
Lucasta Miller says that the Bronte sisters cultivated their image as lonely geniuses living in isolation but had to accept the real limitations imposed on women by society.
Massillon, Ohio is obsessed with the town’s high school team, the Tigers. Kenneth Carlson was a Tiger and made a documentary film called “Go Tigers!”
Richard Poplak tells Anne Strainchamps about the ill-fated attempt to adapt The Simpsons for the Arab world.
