Nina Paley has made a film using animation, Indonesian shadow puppets and a ‘20s era jazz singer to re-tell the story from the Ramayana of the marriage of the Hindu god Rama and his wife, Sita.
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Michio Kaku and Jim Fleming have a grand time exploring levels of impossibility and why the impossible just takes longer.
Rick Miller wrote a one man show that he now performs worldwide. It’s called “MacHomer” and is a fusion of “MacBeth” and “The Simpsons” with Miller doing all the voices.
Astrophysicist Lawrence Krauss tells Steve Paulson that the latest news in cosmology is that the universe is still expanding and at an accelerating rate.
Martin Luther King Jr. Day has us thinking about America's Great Migration -- the epic struggle for freedom that saw six million people migrate north from the southern states before the civil rights era. So we're revisiting Steve Paulson's conversation with Isabel Wilkerson re. her book, "The Warmth of Other Suns."
Justin O. Schmidt is a research biologist and professor at the University of Arizona School of Entomology. He's the creator of Schmidt Sting Pain Index.
Musharraf Ali Farooqi is the translator of "The Adventures of Amir Hamza" and "Hoshruba."
Where does the idea of "being spiritual, not religious" come from? It might be William James and his classic book "The Varieties of Religious Experience."
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