What have the recent leaks about the NSA's surveillance program have revealed? Computer scientist and independent scholar Susan Landau gives us her perspective, and weighs in on the questions of inquiries, and checks and balances.
You can also hear our extended conversation with Landau.
French film-maker Agnes Varda has made a documentary called “The Gleaners and I.” The film is a portrait of people who make their living picking over stuff other people have thrown away.
Alice Waters, owner of Chez Panisse, tells Anne Strainchamps about heirloom apples, persimmons and pomegranates and talks about the many ways she uses fruit at the restaurant.
Andreas Viestad is host of PBS’ “New Scandinavian Cooking.” He tells stories from the location filming of the series.
Colby Buzzell served as a machine gunner in a Stryker Brigade in Iraq. His war blog became the book “My War: Killing Time in Iraq.”
Fairy tales are part of all our lives, whether it's Snow White or Cinderella of Little Red Riding Hood.
Writer and critic Alberto Manguel has assembled a personal library of some thirty thousand volumes which he houses in an old converted stone barn in a village in France.
Annie Murphy Paul talks with Jim Fleming about her research into the field of fetal development. As if pregnancy wasn’t scary enough!
