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.
When you think about the accomplishments of the Civil Rights Movement and the last 50 years, it's tempting to think we've become a post-racial society. But University of Pennsylvania professor John Jackson Jr. believes we're seeing a new type of racial divide, characterized by distrust and paranoia.
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!”
Michael Novacek is a paleontologist at the American Museum of Natural History. Novacek talks with Steve Paulson about some of his most famous discoveries.
Manny Yarborough is 6'7" tall, weighs over 700 pounds, and is a former amateur world champion sumo wrestler.
Indian film-maker Mira Nair talks with Jim Fleming about being a woman director, and combining stories from East and West.
Jeff Ferrell gave up life as a tenured professor and became a dumpster diver. His new book is "Empire of Scrounge."
Mark Brend tells Anne Strainchamps about odd inventions like the Ondes Martenot and how composers have used them.
