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.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Eric Schlosser says our marijuana laws have a lot to do with class and race prejudice.
Carol Dweck is researcher at Stanford University. She says everybody fails, but not everybody fails the right way.
Charles Wilkins talks of his summer job as a college student when he worked for a large suburban cemetery in Toronto.
Antonio Damasio says by understanding the details of what the body is doing when we experience an emotion, science will be able to develop better therapies and interventions.
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.
Benjamin Skinner tells the story of how he infiltrated slave markets on five continents from slave quarries in India to child markets in Haiti and says that in Manhattan, you're five hours away from negotiating the sale of another human being in broad daylight.
Azar Nafisi reads from her memoir "Things I've Been Silent About." She created a sensation with her book "Reading Lolita in Tehran."
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