Martin Norden tells Anne Strainchamps that the disabled have been in films from the beginning, but only as stereotypes: bad disabled people get killed off, while good disabled people get cured.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Nuala O’Faolain tells Jim Fleming one of her novels is based on an adulterous affair across class lines in Ireland during the potato famine.
Melissa Coleman spent the formative years of her chilldhood roaming the lands of her family's farn in rural Maine. Melissa, her sister Heidi, and their parents, Eliot and Sue Coleman, lived off the grid, and became media darlings when the Wall Street Journal ran an article about her father. Coleman writes about that time in her memoir "This Life is in Your Hands."
French chemist Pierre Laszlo tells Steve Paulson that our bodies need salt to prevent dehydration and that removing the salt from seawater isn’t that hard, but it’s very expensive.
So maybe you're not going to be the next Richard Pryor.
Even if you don't get many more laughs, you can laugh more. Katie West tells us how.
Darren Aronofsky's new film "Noah" is getting a lot of buzz, in part because the flood story is a crucial event in the creationist explanation for the origins of life. To find out why, Steve Paulson spoke to the leading historian of creationism, Ronald Numbers.
Psychologist Robert Karen, author of “The Forgiving Self: The Road from Resentment to Connection,” tells Jim Fleming that forcing kids to apologize when they’re not really sorry is a bad idea.
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