Mamek Khadem's soundtrack for an art installation commemorating the anniversary of the Iranian Revolution.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Mike Tidwell is a freelance journalist who thinks he’s found the biggest environmental catastrophe in America. In this pre-Katrina interview, Tidwell talks about the time he spent with shrimpers in the bayou country and what they taught him about the devastating price we’re paying for the way we control floods on the Mississippi River.
Maurice Sendak talks about growing up as a Jewish child in WWII New York.
Rachel Fershleiser and Larry Smith tell Anne Strainchamps how they got started soliciting six-word memoirs, recite some of their favorites, and say that crafting them can become an addiction.
Jim Tucker is a child psychiatrist and director of the University of Virginia's project on children's memories of previous lives.
Elizabeth Hellmuth Margulis talks about "On Repeat: How Music Plays the Mind."
Joshua Shenk tells Jim Fleming that Abraham Lincoln never attempted suicide, that we know of, but referred to it in a poem he wrote, and Shenk recites the poem.
Richard Rodriguez tells Steve Paulson why he celebrates being brown and says Hispanics are the first minority to self-identity by culture rather than race.
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