Amy Drozdowska
- Username: amydrozd
- PRX Member
- Role: Producer/Reporter: Independent
Recent Pieces from Amy Drozdowska
Alvin Toffler and Margaret Mead: Future Shock, Innocence and Innovation
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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 ...
Oliver Sacks, Jacques Cousteau, and George Washington Carver
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Peanuts, Atlantis, and Colorblindness. It's our latest episode in The Experimenters miniseries featuring icons of science and innovation. Oliver Sacks, Jacques Cousteau, and ...
Carl Sagan on Extraterrestrials
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"That’s inevitable that humans would project their hopes and fears upon the cosmos" - Carl Sagan on October 4, 1985, as told to Studs Terkel. The pair talk about man's place ...
Dame Stephanie Shirley on Survival Code
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"I have to make my life worth saving, and each day you spend as if it would be your last" - Dame Stephanie Shirley in 2010 from an oral history at the British Library. The ...
Temple Grandin on the Autistic Brain
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" If you got rid of all of the genes that cause autism, you’d be rid of Carl Sagan, you’d be rid of Mozart. Einstein, today, would be labeled autistic." - Temple Grandin in ...
Frank Lloyd Wright on Arrogance
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“Any man who really has faith in himself will be dubbed arrogant by his fellows” - Frank Lloyd Wright in 1957, as told to Mike Wallace
Sally Ride on Dumb Questions, The Experimenters
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“I wish that there had been another woman on my flight. I think it would have been a lot easier.” - Sally Ride in 1983. Interviewed by Gloria Steinem.
Garrison Keillor on Humor
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“My family was shocked when I came home with a volume of Hemingway … There was a price to be paid for being interested in fiction.” - Garrison Keillor in November 1994, as ...
Patty Hearst on Reasonable Doubt
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“I‘m a coward, I didn’t want to die” - Patty Hearst in 1982, as told to Larry Grobel. Larry Grobel told us the story about a time back in the early 80s when he borrowed a ...
