Balancing Act

The Leonard Lopate Show | May 10, 2010
Find out how the USSR's launch of Sputnik 50 years ago brought the world’s superpowers to the brink of nuclear war! Also: the relationship between the media and the Pentagon. A look into how mass-produced commercial colors changed the art world in the mid-20th century. And Please Explain is all about balance and the 6th sense of proprioception.

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