Martin Luther King Jr. Day has us thinking about America's Great Migration -- the epic struggle for freedom that saw six million people migrate north from the southern states before the civil rights era. So we're revisiting Steve Paulson's conversation with Isabel Wilkerson re. her book, "The Warmth of Other Suns."
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Documentary film-maker Errol Morris has made a film called "Standard Operating Procedure" about the American soldiers at Abu Ghraib. Morris and journalist Philip Gourevitch have written a companion book.
Jean Edward Smith is the author of "FDR," and tells Jim Fleming about Franklin Roosevelt's Supreme Court-packing scandal of 1937.
Keren David is a young adult author who has imagined just what living in the Witness Protection Program might mean.
Imagine a portable listening device you wear like a walkman that converts the sounds around you into a form of music. Noah Vawter developed one.
Ed Boyden, a researcher at MIT, is at the forefront of a new science that aims to map and even heal the brain with light. It’s called optogenetics, and the journal Science has called it one of the great insights of the 21st century. It’s in its early days, but the goal is to one day be able to take a disease like depression, PTSD, or epilepsy and, using bursts of light, just turn it off -- the same way you’d fix a software glitch in a computer.
Novelist Jane Hamilton reads her favorite novel endings.
Rachel Boynton's film, "Our Brand is Crisis" follows the efforts of an American political consulting firm which became involved in the Bolivian presidential election.
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