Master gardener Michael Pollan talks about his youthful experiment with growing marijuana and explains how the war on drugs spurred growers into developing a stronger, hardier plant.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Oscar Robertson is one of the all-time great basketball players. He talks with Steve Paulson about his constant struggle against racism during his playing years.
This is a poem by Susan Avishai about a single elderly woman who lived next door for more than 25 years.She wrote it just a few months before her neighbor passed away.
Milwaukee computer programmer Mohan Embar describes competing for -- and winning -- the 2012 Loebner Prize for Artificial Intelligence. His chat bot, Chip Vivant, was the most "human computer" of the year. But it still couldn't pass the Turing Test.
Paul Greenberg tells Jim Fleming that Russians get under the skin of Americans, who often make promises they can’t fulfill to the Russians’ expectations.
Kate Sekules tells Anne Strainchamps how she got into boxing, why she enjoyed getting really strong, and how she coped with her anger during bouts.
Lynne Cox is a long distance swimmer who specializes in the impossible. She tells Steve Paulson how she trained, and how she’s able to do survive in such cold water.
Nick Cook tells Steve Paulson that there seems to be something called zero point energy. Once we build the technology to master it, we’ll solve all our energy problems.
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