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Innocence, Innovation and Future Shock

Alvin Toffler and Margaret Mead, an author and an anthropologist who endeavored to understand the impact of scientific invention. In this episode of our series, The Experimenters, we hear from two visionaries who believed that while we’ve started a technological revolution, we don’t quite know where it’s going to take us. But maybe most interesting of all […] Blank on Blank

Peanuts, Atlantis, and Colorblindness

Oliver Sacks, Jacques Cousteau, and George Washington Carver. Our podcast returns with lost interviews featuring this trio on self, sight, and deep-sea diving. The three icons had the imaginations and daring to go where none had gone before. They overcame indifference and bigotry, exploring the darkest depths of the ocean, and even challenging their own deepest assumptions. These […] Blank on Blank

Carl Sagan on Extraterrestrials *

“The evolutionary record is clear that extraterrestrials would be very different from us” - Carl Sagan in 1985, as told to Studs Terkel.   The incomprehensible vastness of the universe, the wonder of our own place in it all... Carl Sagan was able to explain the science of space in a way everyone could understand. As part of our special series, The Experimenters -- we’re uncovering interviews with the icons of science, technology, and innovation -- we found this conversation between Studs Terkel and Carl Sagan in the WFMT Studs Terkel Radio Archive. For this episode, we've zeroed in on Sagan's thoughts on intelligent life in space, our place in the universe, and the Bible when it comes to explaining the natural world. Watch the animated version of this episode from our series with PBS Digital Studios: oldbonb.wpengine.com/carl-sagan Blank on Blank

Dame Stephanie Shirley on Survival Code *

“I have to make my life worth saving, and each day you spend as if it would be your last” - Dame Steve Shirley in 2010 Dame Stephanie Shirley might be the most successful tech entrepreneur you have never heard of. In the early 1960s, Shirley started a barrier-breaking, all-woman software company that would eventually be valued at $3 billion. From a rarely heard oral history at The British Library, Shirley takes us on the journey from fleeing Nazi Germany as a little girl to breaking through in the new world of computers despite not being taken seriously as a woman working from home. Watch the animated version of this episode from our series with PBS Digital Studios: http://bit.ly/steve-shirley Blank on Blank

Temple Grandin on Search Engines *

"Everything in my mind works like a search engine set for the image function." - Temple Grandin in 2008 This rarely heard oral history with the autism activist, author, and professor of animal science, was uncovered at Colorado State University. In this conversation, Temple Grandin is at her best, explaining for the rest of us what it’s really like to have an autistic brain and how Einstein’s not the only genius who could have been dismissed for being different. Watch the animated version of this episode from our series with PBS Digital Studios: http://oldbonb.wpengine.com/temple-grandin Blank on Blank