Hiking. Fishing. Camping. What about using the parks for, well, being a bad ass. The documentary “Valley Uprising” tells the story of the rock climbers who have dared El Capitan – the 3000 foot granite wall of Yosemite National Park. Nick Rosen is the film’s director. He told Steve Paulson that the story starts back in the 1950s. Before climbing wall gyms. Before it was even legal to climb in Yosemite.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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David Benjamin tells Steve Paulson that in those days, adults left kids pretty much alone, but relied on a network of neighbors to keep tabs on things.
Cory Doctorow is a writer and digital activist who works to defend electronic freedom.
Carolin Emcke tells Steve Paulson that what war survivors ask for most often is the chance to tell her their stories.
Christine Kenneally tells Steve Paulson that Noam Chomsky thought language was hard-wired in the human brain, but later researchers have shown that its development is even more complex.
Novelist Richard Powers bookmarks "Objects and Empathy" by Arthur Saltzman.
Criminologist Nils Christie's Dangerous Idea? Treat prisoners as people.
Fleda Brown, poet laureate of Delaware reads some of her poems and talks with Steve Paulson.
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