Fashion designer Suzanne Lee makes jackets and skirts out of cloth she grows by fermenting liquid in a big vat. In the future, she believes we'll harness nature to grow all sorts of clothing and other products.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Charles Monroe-Kane is tired of hearing Baby Boomers wax nostalgic and he tells us why.
Brian Turner was an average young American who volunteered for military service in Iraq. At night he wrote poetry by flashlight.
Historian David Blight tells Jim Fleming that popular memory of the Civil War all but obliterated the liberation of Black Americans.
Physicist Michio Kaku's Dangerous Idea? A virtual "library of souls."
Dominique Raccah tells Anne Strainchamps why she loves hearing the actual voices of people like Denise Levertov, W.H. Auden and Robert Frost.
Eric Booth is one of America's leading teaching artists and trainers of teaching artists.
Ted Gioia was in high school when he first visited a jazz club and he realized instantly, "This is it! This is what I've been looking for." The experience changed his life and since then he's become a noted jazz critic and historian. Gioia's new book is "How to Listen to Jazz." He tells Anne Strainchamps that new collaborations with rappers and rockers are revitalizing today's jazz.
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