Blank on Blank Podcast
1) Stan Getz on Wasted Years
“I’ve done some dastardly things but what can I do except make amends and apologize?”
2) 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 vis...Show More
3) 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...Show More
4) 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 ...Show More
5) 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 ne...Show More
6) 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...Show More
7) Frank Lloyd Wright on Arrogance *
“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 Architect Frank Lloyd Wright did something new when he made build...Show More
8) Sally Ride on Dumb Questions *
“I wish that there had been another woman on my flight. I think it would have been a lot easier.” – Sally Ride, the first American woman in space, shortly after her historic launch in 1983. Interviewe...Show More
9) Garrison Keillor on Humor *
“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 1994 In this new episode we have a conversatio...Show More
10) Nina Simone on Shock *
“It’s a good time for black people to be alive. It’s a lot of hell. A lot of violence, but I feel more alive now than I ever have in my life. I have a chance to live, as I’ve dreamed.” - Nina Simone ...Show More