Indian film-maker Mira Nair talks with Jim Fleming about being a woman director, and combining stories from East and West.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Psychologist Martin Seligman is the former president of the American Psychological Association. He tells Jim Fleming about his philosophy of “Positive Psychology.”
Psychologist Judith Wallerstein talks with Jim Fleming about the frightening findings from her 25 year study on children of divorce.
Will we ever understand the true nature of dark matter and dark energy? Harvard cosmologist Lisa Randall considers these and other great mysteries in physics.
Chicago May was a 19th century Irish immigrant who became a con-woman and crook instead of a maid or factory worker.
Melissa Fay Greene provides a profile of the AIDS orphans of Ethiopia and one remarkable woman who saved dozens by opening her home to them after the death of her adult daughter from AIDS.
Are we alone in the universe? Almost certainly not. The young science of astrobiology is closing in on a discovery that will rock our world: there IS life beyond earth. New telescopes, new missions, and new discoveries in outer space and in the most remote areas of our own planet all point to one conclusion. Extra terrestrial life exists, and we're very close to finding it. Science writer Marc Kaufman explains what's changed.
NPR's Robert Krulwich, co-host of RADIOLAB, says that the secret to good science reporting is to start at the beginning and go slowly so people can understand it.
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