Martha Ackmann is the author of “The Mercury 13: The Untold Story of Thirteen American Women and the Dream of Space Flight.” Ackman says that in 1960, female astronaut trainees were expected to fly in full make-up, Chanel suits and high heels.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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John Huss is the co-editor, with David Werther, of "Johnny Cash and Philosophy: The Burning Ring of Truth." In the book, 21 philosophers muse about the music of Johnny Cash.
Rachel Pastan reads from and talks with Steve Paulson about her novel "Lady of the Snakes." The book concerns a young professor of 19th century Russian literature confronted with combining her professional life and motherhood.
Can meditating for 10 days change your life? It has for dozens of inmates at a maximum security prison in Alabama who signed up for a grueling, intensive course of Vapassana meditation. Jenny Phillips tells the story in her documentary film "The Dhamma Brothers."
In Laura Poitras's film "My Country, My Country" she shoots in cinema verite style and based her film on the actions of an Iranian physician and his family around the recent Iranian election.
Author of "Farm City" faces a drawback to her urban farm dream in Oakland, then called "the murder capital of the world."
Katharine Rogers tells Jim Fleming that there’s a lot more to Oz than the Wizard, and that Baum always loved the theater and would have been thrilled by the Judy Garland movie.
Robert Bruggeman has a positive outlook on sprawl. He says societies have always grown and ours looks the way it does because suburbs represent the way Americans like to live.
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