How important is this discovery of hominin fossils in the Rising Star Cave? Paleoanthropologist John Hawks says it overturns many of our assumptions about human prehistory, and also raises profound questions about what these human-like creatures thought about death and ritual.
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Do you feel grief and longing when a place you love has been damaged? Then you may have "solastalgia" ...
Harold McGee recently visited the kitchen of L'Etoile Restaurant in Madison, Wisconsin with Anne Strainchamps to provide a guided tour of food science.
Actor and producer George Bartenieff put together and performs a one man play called "I Will Bear Witness" based on the diaries of Victor Klemperer, a Jew who survived the Third Reich.
Antoinette Varner says that to truly know our selves, just drop who you think you are, and pay attention to the "I". In this UNCUT interview, Varner - who's also known as Gangaji - talks with Steve Paulson about grappling with narrative identity, and moving beyond it.
Holley Bishop is a New York literary agent who once wouldn’t have cared about nature. These days she’s flat-out in love with bees, and has written “Robbing the Bees - A Biography of Honey.”
Poet Gillian Ferguson lives in Edinburgh. Her volume “Baby: Poems on Pregnancy, Birth and Babies” explores her experience of being pregnant and giving birth.
Hannah Palin lives in Seattle and works as a film archivist. Her mother is retired and lives in Washington, D.C.
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