Jessica Queller tells Anne Strainchamps why she decided to have a double mastectomy after she tested positive for the breast cancer gene and her mother died of ovarian cancer.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Mead McCormick is one of 100 finalists for the Mars One program, a private venture that hopes to start a colony on Mars by 2027. She talks to Anne Strainchamps about what attracted her to the project, what she imagines it will look like, and her fears about the blackness of space.
Michael Piechowski talks about the intensity with which gifted children experience their lives.
Laura Hillenbrand tells Ann Strainchamps how the story of this ugly animal with a ferocious will to win reflects the history of the United States as it left the frontier behind.
Cosmologist Paul Davies talks with Steve Paulson about the anthropic principle and proposes that we live in a "participatory" universe - a premise he explores in his book, "Cosmic Jackpot: Why Our Universe Is Just Right for Life."
Susan Tom has adopted a dozen or so special needs children, plus has two of her own. Jonathan Karsh has made a film about her family called “My Flesh and Blood.”
Want to sum up a parent’s job in one word? It might be “giving”. Here’s commentator Marion Winik on teaching her youngest child to be giving too.
Richard Rodriguez tells Steve Paulson why he celebrates being brown and says Hispanics are the first minority to self-identity by culture rather than race.
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