Susan Faludi is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist. She's the author of the feminist classic, "Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women," and a book about American manhood called "Stiffed." Now she's back with her most personal story -- about her struggle to deal with her father's unexpected revelation.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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How important is this discovery of hominin fossils in the Rising Star Cave? Paleoanthropologist John Hawks says it overturns many of our assumptions about human prehistory, and also raises profound questions about what these human-like creatures thought about death and ritual.
Silence is disappearing in our world. This one of the world's leading audio ecologists brought lots of interesting sonic examples for us to hear.
George Dyson grew up in the backyard of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, where some of the most brilliant engineers and mathematicians in the world (including his parents) were building one of the first computers. His new book, "Turing's Cathedral", is the story of their quest to build a working computer.
Jim Fleming talks with Harvey Pekar about "American Splendor" and his friendship with Robert Crumb.
Geraldine Hughes wrote and stars in the one-woman play “Belfast Blues.” It’s based on her childhood in Troubles-plagued Belfast.
Before he was a crooner, BIng Crosby was totally hip and outsold Sinatra. But he couldn't make the jump to rock and roll.
From his home in Mexico City, Guillermo Arriaga tells Steve Paulson where the story idea for “21 Grams” came from, and why it was so interesting to have a religious man direct a film written by an atheist that deals with topics like the meaning of life and the afterlife.
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