Dana Lindaman tells Anne Strainchamps that Americans should remember that other countries have different views of America.
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David Assman is a German film-maker who spent time with the Iranian women's National Football Team as they played their first game in decades.
Legal scholar Cass Sunstein believes humans are innately irrational.
Davy Rothbart is the founder and editor of “Found” Magazine. He reads some samples of the notes and lists he’s found and talks about them with Jim Fleming
Barack Obama talks with Steve Paulson about his self-image and success.
Carol Dweck is researcher at Stanford University. She says everybody fails, but not everybody fails the right way.
Angie da Silva is a historian of black cultural life in the United States, going back to the Civil War. She collects stories, both through oral history and archival research. But she's not merely a writer. She brings these stories to life through historical reenactment, often as a slave character she's created named Lila. She says that the stories she hears and tells are too often left out of our history books.
In this interview, she talks about her work and tells the story of Mary Meachum, a free black abolitionist who worked on the Mississippi in St. Louis.
Astronomers have detected strange light patterrns around a star 1500 light years away. The usual explanations fall short, so Jason Wright says one possibility is a massive structure created by an advanced alien civilization.
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