David Sterritt tells Steve Paulson about beatnik filmmaker Bruce Conner, the father of the music video and creator of a style of video montage that prefigures today's upcycling movement.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Father Thomas Keating is considered by some people one of the world's greatest living mystics.
In 1969, Frederic Whitehurst was in Viet Nam, burning captured enemy documents. He saved the diary of a young woman, and many years later returned it to her mother.
Bill McKibben tells Anne Strainchamps that his new Honda Civic electric hybrid car gets over fifty miles to the gallon and is just as comfortable and convenient as his old Civic.
A final reflection on time from 92 year old writer and former book editor Diana Athill.
Anyone who works in news will tell you that photographs drive attention. That a great photograph can propel a story or an issue from the sidelines to the center of a public conversation. Large-scale photographer Edward Burtynsky is making it his life’s work to jump start a global conversation about sustainability – by photographing scarred, damaged industrial landscapes. He’s a TED prize winner whose work is in more than 50 museum collections. Burtynsky and filmmaker Jennifer Baichwal have worked together on two documentaries. Steve Paulson talked with her about their first – filmed in China. It’s called “Manufactured Landscapes.”
New York Times writer went to Stockholm to track down the back story of the Millennium series and its author who died suddenly.
Doug Quin is trying to help us tune certain sounds in, sounds we don't consider worth hearing -- from the sound of a spider sucking blood from an insect to the sound of a tree falling in a forest.
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