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Worshipping Waterfalls: The Evolution of Belief from 2022-02-19T12:00
Jane Goodall has seen wild chimpanzees dance and bristle with excitement around roaring waterfalls — and she thinks it’s an experience of awe and wonder — and possibly a precursor to animistic r...
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Rewriting the Romance Script from 2022-02-12T12:00
We take a look at the romantic tropes of modern love and how they’re changing. Do the old dreams of true love and happiness ever after fit our new lives and new identities?
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To All The Dogs We've Loved from 2022-02-05T12:00
The bond we share with dogs runs deep. The satisfaction of gentle head scratches or a round of playing fetch is simple and pure, but in other ways, the connection we have is truly unknowable. Ho...
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Journeys Through Gender from 2022-01-15T12:00
Sharing of personal pronouns has become standard practice on resumes, business cards, email signatures and more. And that’s just one sign of an increasingly widespread shift in how we think abou...
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Time Beyond The Clock from 2022-01-01T12:00
Clocks and calendars chop time into increments – minutes, hours, days, years. It’s efficient, and it helps us get to meetings on time. But when we invented artificial time, we gave up natural ti...
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Whose Land Is It? from 2021-12-18T12:00
Ever want to quit your job, leave the rat race behind, and head back to the land? Buy an old farmhouse or build a solar-powered home and live self-sufficiently on a few acres of your very own? G...
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If Your Clothes Could Talk from 2021-12-04T12:00
Whether you know it or not, your closets are filled with personal information. About your identity, your values, your personality. And every day, you wear it all right out the door for the whole...
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Rethinking the Holidays from 2021-11-27T12:00
We’re in the holiday season of the worst pandemic of our lives. Canceling our gatherings is the safe thing to do. But, how can we still — creatively and safely — connect with the people we love?...
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Shapeshifting from 2021-11-20T12:00
There are old folktales and legends of people who can become animals. Animals who can become people. And there’s a lesson for our own time in those shapeshifting stories — a recognition that the...
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Generation Witch from 2021-10-30T11:00
As a culture we’ve long been fascinated by witchcraft, with witches through the ages practicing magic and making spells. Even through the spread of misinformation, and when they’ve been hunted a...
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Solace of Nature from 2021-10-23T11:00
Rustling of leaves, sploshing of water, birds calling, bees buzzing. Wherever you live — city or country, East coast, West coast, or in between — we share common, contemplative experiences on ou...
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Mysteries of Migration from 2021-10-16T11:00
If you had to travel 500 miles across country, on foot, with no map, no GPS, without talking to anyone — to a destination you've never seen, could you do it? It sounds impossible, but millions o...
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Jazz Migrations from 2021-10-09T11:00
Music crosses boundaries between traditional and modern, local and global, personal and political. Take jazz — a musical form born out of forced migration and enslavement. We typically think it ...
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What Afghan Women Want You to Know from 2021-10-02T11:00
The women of Afghanistan are elected officials, school teachers, actors, TV contest winners, ancient rug weavers, and whisperers of forbidden poetry. The Taliban are starting to put down their t...
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Finding Meaning in Desperate Times from 2021-09-25T11:00
We’ve all been changed by the experience of living through a pandemic. We figured out how to sanitize groceries, mute ourselves on Zoom and keep from killing our roommates. But we’re also tackli...
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The Secret Language of Trees from 2021-09-18T11:00
Using a complex network of chemical signals, trees talk to each other and form alliances with fellow trees, even other species. In fact, whole forests exist as a kind of superorganism. And some ...
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Is War Ever Worth It? from 2021-09-11T11:00
For all the commentary, the sorrow and rage, all the second-guessing about everything that followed, it’s still hard to fathom what happened on 9/11. Photographer James Nachtwey was in New York ...
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Traveling By Book from 2021-09-04T11:00
Before the time of commercial flights and road trips, we traveled to far off places without taking a single step. All you had to do was open a book. From Africa to England, to a kamikaze cockpit...
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Our Virtual Reality from 2021-08-28T11:00
Not everyone has a nice, big yard to stretch out in while sheltering in place from COVID-19. But maybe you don't need one. People are using virtual spaces to live out the real experiences they m...
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Plants As Persons from 2021-08-21T11:00
Over the past decade, plant scientists have quietly transformed the way we think of trees, forests and plants. They discovered that trees communicate through vast underground networks, that plan...
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Writing the Climate Change Story from 2021-08-14T11:00
One of the toughest things about trying to understand climate change – arguably the most important story of our time - is wrapping our minds around it. To even imagine something so enormous, so ...
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Living In Skin from 2021-08-07T11:00
We all miss touching things — groceries, door knobs, hands, faces. And most of all, skin. The living tissue that simultaneously protects us from the world, and lets us feel it. In this episode, ...
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Sprinting for the Finish Line from 2021-07-31T11:00
What does it take to win Olympic gold? To become "the world's fastest human"? This hour, Olympic fame, the politics of sports, and the science of running.
Original Air Date: July 31,...
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When Mountains Are Gods from 2021-07-24T11:00
If you look at a mountain, you might see a skiing destination, a climbing challenge, or even a source of timber to be logged or ore to be mined. But there was a time when mountains were sacred. ...
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How Africans Are Building The Cities Of The Future from 2021-07-17T19:08:34
Africans are moving into cities in unprecedented numbers. Lagos, Nigeria, is growing by 77 people an hour — it's on track to become a city of 100 million. In 30 years, the continent is ...
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Everything is Exhausting from 2021-07-11T14:24:02
Why don’t we all just take moment to acknowledge that we are collectively exhausted? The pandemic, the protests, the President’s Twitter feed — everything is exhausting. But maybe it doesn’t hav...
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As Read By The Author from 2021-07-03T11:00
As audio producers, one of the most fun things we get to do is bring the soundscape of a novel to life — cue the monsters, the storms, the footsteps of a creature emerging slowly from the ocean....
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Eye-To-Eye Animal Encounters from 2021-06-26T11:00
There's a certain a kind of visual encounter that can be life changing: A cross-species gaze. The experience of looking directly into the eyes of an animal in the wild, and seeing it look back. ...
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Our Time of Mourning from 2021-06-19T11:00
Is there a better way to talk about death? And to grieve? So many people have died during the pandemic — 4.8 million and counting — that we're living through a period of global mourning. And som...
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The Resilient Brain from 2021-06-12T11:00
New experiences actually rewire the brain. So after all we’ve been through this year, you have to wonder — are we different? We consider the "COVID brain" from the perspective of both neuroscien...
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Secrets of Alchemy from 2021-06-05T11:00
Once upon a time, science and magic were two sides of the same coin. Today, we learn science in school and save magic for children’s books. What if it were different? What would it be like to se...
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Why Do We Have So Much Stuff? from 2021-05-29T11:00
If you wrote a list of all the things you own in your house, how long would it be? We surround ourselves with possessions, but at what point do they start to possess us?
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A Parenting Revolution from 2021-05-22T11:00
The pandemic has made it clear that parents are walking a tightrope with no safety net. We talk to parents about how they want to change the system, what it's like to raise black boys in a time ...
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Growing Justice from 2021-05-15T11:00
A new generation of Black farmers are working to reclaim land, hoping to grow justice along with vegetables and plants.
Original Air Date: August 22, 2020
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The Weird, Wild World of Mushrooms from 2021-05-08T11:00
We owe our past and future existence on Earth to fungi. Some can heal you, some can kill you, and some can change you forever. And the people who love them are convinced that mushrooms explain t...
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Reading While Young from 2021-05-01T11:00
Remember when reading still felt magical? When a book could sweep you off your feet into another world? It might be that the best way to find your way back the magic is through a kid’s book. We ...
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Searching for Order in the Universe from 2021-04-24T11:00
When things don't go the way they're supposed to — viruses, star systems, presidents, even fish — we're often desperate to explain the chaos. In this episode, we search for order in the universe...
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The Power of Pleasure and Joy from 2021-04-17T11:00
What if the most unselfish thing you could do was to pursue pleasure? To look for delight? To feel joy? We make the case for the transformative power of joy, pleasure and delight.
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Living With Loneliness from 2021-04-10T11:00
After a pandemic year of social isolation, we knew loneliness would be a problem. But public health officials have been warning for years that in countries all over the world, rates of lonelines...
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Who Owns Seeds? from 2021-03-27T11:00
It's easy to take seeds for granted, to assume that there will always be more corn or wheat or rice to plant. But as monocropping and agribusiness continue to dominate modern farming, are we los...
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Decolonizing the Mind from 2021-03-20T11:00
Colonization in Africa was much more than a land grab. It was a project to replace — and even erase — local cultures. To label them inferior. Music, arts, literature and of course language. In o...
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Discovering America's Black DNA from 2021-03-13T12:00
DNA tests are uncovering family histories. In some cases they're also revealing mixed bloodlines and the buried history of slavery. For African Americans, this can be emotionally-charged. What d...
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Going Underground from 2021-02-27T12:00
Scientists and explorers have found a whole new world, ripe for discovery, under our feet. The earth's underground is teeming with life, from fungal networks to the deep microbiome mil...
Hope: Are We Really Doomed? from 2021-02-06T12:00
Hope means believing there’s a future. But can hope co-exist with cataclysmic realities like climate change, or disruptive technological advances like artificial intelligence? What’s a...
Hope: How Do You Make It? from 2021-01-30T12:00
We’ve all been there, that place where we feel hope slipping away. Maybe we’ve even lost hope. This hour we talk with people who’ve turned that around and made hope real, whether it’s ...
Hope: Where Does It Come From? from 2021-01-23T12:00
Is hope something we’re innately born with, or something we can choose to have? We talk with people who tell us where they think hope lives in ourselves and our communities.
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The Vaccine Trackers from 2021-01-16T12:00
We’re in the midst of the largest vaccine rollout of our lives. A turning point, we hope. But it’s complicated — medically, logistically, philosophically. Who will get it first? Will i...
Deep Tracks: Live In Studio from 2021-01-02T12:00
In times of crisis, we need music. We look at how far people will go — even under quarantine, during a pandemic — to find ways to make music together.
Original Air Date: April...
Poetry in a Troubled Time from 2020-11-21T12:00
Why do people turn to poetry during troubled times? We saw it after 9/11 and we're seeing it now as the coronavirus travels around the world. When the world seems broken, poetry is oft...
The Personal Politics of Sports from 2020-11-07T12:00
What do you do when the headlines are freaking you out and the news is making you tense? A lot of people find sports takes their mind off things. It’s like this one worry-free, politic...
Rituals of Fear from 2020-10-31T11:00
Be still. Prepare the altar. Gather around in a circle. Light the fire. And join us for rituals that will put fear in your heart. Because what if experiencing your fears — the dread, t...
Democracy on the Ballot from 2020-10-17T11:00
Americans are getting ready to vote. But this election is different from other years. What's really on the ballot?
Original Air Date: October 17, 2020
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Books We Can't Forget from 2020-09-12T11:00
Is there a book you can’t forget? A book that left a mark on you? On Bookmarks, our micropodcast, we share tiny stories from writers, about the books they love most. This week, we’ll p...
Up All Night from 2020-08-29T10:59
How well do you sleep? Every night, millions of us turn out the lights hoping and praying for a good night’s sleep. And every night, millions of us lie awake in the dark. We explore wh...
Out Of The Mental Illness Box from 2020-08-15T14:04:40
When treating mental illness, you know the drill. Take your meds. Call me in the morning. Let's check in on how you feel in a few months. Repeat.
But maybe there’s something e...
Loving Bees from 2020-08-01T11:00
Bees stir each one of our senses — the zen-like hum, the sweet honey, the waxy smell of wildflowers mixed with hard work, the vibrant orange and black bodies attached to window-paned w...
Music on Your Mind from 2020-06-26T19:24:48
Millions of people are caring for someone with severe memory loss, trying to find ways to connect. One of the best ways anyone has found is music. We examine the unexpected power of so...
Breaking the Chains from 2020-06-20T11:03
America is in the midst of what seems like a race revolution. Street protests are continuing across the country. Police departments are enacting changes. Confederate statues are coming...