Dave Foreman started as a lobbyist for the Wilderness Society in the 1970s. Then he became a radical and co-founded Earth First! becoming America's most admired and notorious environmentalist.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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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.
Doug Gordon profiles Cole’s notes, the Canadian inspiration for America’s CliffsNotes.
David Hajdu is the author of “Positively Fourth Street,” a book about Joan Baez and Bob Dylan and the folk/protest music scene of the 1960s.
A final reflection on time from 92 year old writer and former book editor Diana Athill.
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.
Lacey Schwartz was raised in a white, upper middle class, Jewish household in upstate New York. After going off to college she uncovered a closely guarded family secret — she was biracial. Lacey chronicles the revelation and her own search for identity in the documentary Little White Lie.
Aubrey de Grey has identified seven categories of molecular and cellular damage. He says if we can prevent or repair that damage, there's no reason why people can't go on living indefinitely.
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