Anousheh Ansari became the first Muslim woman to venture into space when she traveled aboard the International Space Station.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Noted nature writer Terry Tempest Williams knows that the woods can be frightening, if you go walking in them with the wrong person. She tells the story of how she narrowly escaped a brutal attack while hiking.
Scott Jennings provides an essay on Kurt Cobain, the effects of heroin on Cobain’s music, and his legacy for a whole generation.
By now, it's almost commonplace to worry that the amount of time you spend on the Internet is actually rewiring your brain. But the first person to really put the issue on the cultural map was the writer Nicholas Carr -- in a book that's become a contemporary classic: "The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains."
Sounds from the Dane County Farmer’s Market, right here in Madison, Wisconsin. Our farmer’s market is the largest in the country.
Why are millions of British TV viewers obsessed with the Danish TV show The Killing? And will Americans ever get to see the original? We catch up with the show's creator, Danish writer/director Soren Sveistrup.
If there is one song more than any other that shimmers with political and emotional resonance, it’s “We Shall Overcome.”
We look back at the legacy of the sixties: Tom Hayden, one of the founders of Students for a Democratic Society and later a State Assemblyman and Senator in California, talks with Steve Paulson.
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