Danny Gregory tells Jim Fleming that film-strips became popular around the time of the second world war and were used for industrial training and in public schools.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Novelist Gary Shteyngart recommends one of his favorite reads: "Jernigan" by David Gates.
Media theorist Douglas Rushkoff's Dangerous Idea? We need to reclaim time.
Film-maker Deborah Scranton gave cameras directly to troops on the ground, then spent months editing the footage they sent her.
Brad Hirschfield was once a religious fanatic. He was one of a small number of Jewish settlers living in Hebron, in the middle of thousands of Palestinians.
The Silk Road was once the great meeting place between the East and the West - a network of ancient trading routes winding through China and India, across Central Asia and Iran to the Mediterranean.
Death is not a single moment; it’s can take hours – and some people live again after they die. So says resuscitation physician Sam Parnia. This UNCUT interview with him ranges from the new science of reversing death, to near death experiences, and the possibility of consciousness after death.
Pop culture critic Camille Paglia talks with Anne Strainchamps about our obsession with makeovers and the human impulse to mythologize public figures.
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