Anyone who works in news will tell you that photographs drive attention. That a great photograph can propel a story or an issue from the sidelines to the center of a public conversation. Large-scale photographer Edward Burtynsky is making it his life’s work to jump start a global conversation about sustainability – by photographing scarred, damaged industrial landscapes. He’s a TED prize winner whose work is in more than 50 museum collections. Burtynsky and filmmaker Jennifer Baichwal have worked together on two documentaries. Steve Paulson talked with her about their first – filmed in China. It’s called “Manufactured Landscapes.”
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Aubrey de Grey has identified seven categories of molecular and cellular damage. He says if we can prevent or repair that damage, there's no reason why people can't go on living indefinitely.
Ralph Nader's Dangerous Idea? Drafting the children and grandchildren of elected representatives.
Eric Kandel is one of the world's leading experts on memory. A Nobel Prize-winning neuroscientist, he talks about recent discoveries about the science of memory.
When and how did American get so polarized? For answers, Jonathan Chait recommends reading "What Hath God Wrought," a history of American politics from 1815-1848 by the Pulitzer prize-winning historian Daniel Walker Howe.
New York Times writer went to Stockholm to track down the back story of the Millennium series and its author who died suddenly.
Nearly 600,000 people are homeless on any given night in America, and despite the obstacles, some do ultimately find their way out. Victor McDonald is one who did.
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