Franz Lidz is the author of "Ghosty Men: The Strange but True Story of the Collyer Brothers, New York's Greatest Hoarders."
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Deborah Scranton gives cameras directly to soldiers, She edits their footage over the internet.
Carl Honore talks with Anne Strainchamps about how the Slowness movement got started and how it's developed into a revolution.
Artist and activist Molly Crabapple believes borders are soon becoming a thing of the past.
Daniel Wolff tells Anne Strainchamps that most Americans learn what they really need to know outside of school and that, as a society, we believe contradictory things about the value of public education.
Death is the one that no one can survive. Unless… well, it depends on just how dead you are.
“In the culture people talk about trauma as an event that happened a long time ago. But what trauma is, is the imprints that event has left on your mind and in your sensations... the discomfort you feel and the agitation you feel and the rage and the helplessness you feel right now.”
Psychiatrist Bessel van der Kolk is helping people with post traumatic stress disorder focus less on talking about their stories, and more on how their stories feel, how they sound, look, or smell.
You can also hear van der Kolk's extended interview, including more on yoga and the neuroscience of trauma.
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