Her discoveries of radium and radioactivity revolutionized our world. She opened the doors of science to women world-wide. And yet, ironically, Marie Curie almost never made it into the laboratory. Witness a life that challenges our assumptions about what one person can achieve and the responsibilities of science.

Meet first lady Eleanor Roosevelt during her husband’s second term as president, in the unfolding years of the New Deal. Hear her views on what makes life worth living and how we can each make a difference in the midst of a strife-filled world – views at least as relevant today as they were seven decades ago.

How did Mary Shelley's Frankenstein reflect her own experience? Why does the story endure to this day? See the writer's craft in action. Re-examine your own ideas on what makes us human. Today's capabilities of cloning and genetic engineering charge us to re-examine the implications of what was once thought to be merely fantasy.

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