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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

In this EXTENDED interview, Dr. Eduardo Rodriguez tells the story of a marathon facial transplantation for his patient, Richard Norris.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

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.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

In all this talk about the future, we should probably remember that the past repeats itself. 

That’s one themes that runs through “Children of the Days,” the latest book from the lauded Latin American author, Eduardo Galeano.

You can also listen to the extended version of Steve's conversation with him.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Dan Pierotti's wife Judy tells the story of the last few days and minutes of Dan's life.

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A final reflection on time from 92 year old writer and former book editor Diana Athill.

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Chris Ware bookmarks "Society Is Nix" by Peter Maresca.

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Anyone who works in news will tell you that photographs drive attention.  That a great photograph can propel a story or an issue from the sidelines to the center of a public conversation.  Large-scale photographer Edward Burtynsky is making it his life’s work to jump start a global conversation about sustainability – by photographing scarred, damaged industrial landscapes.  He’s a TED prize winner whose work is in more than 50 museum collections.  Burtynsky and filmmaker Jennifer Baichwal have worked together on two documentaries.  Steve Paulson talked with her about their first – filmed in China.  It’s called  “Manufactured Landscapes.”

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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.

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