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Feeling Through Trauma - Bessel van der Kolk

“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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Charles Baxter on "Saul and Patsy"

Writer Charles Baxter understands the inner world of teenagers.  He shares a tale of teen angst from his novel, “Saul and Patsy.”

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BookMark: "My Struggle" by Karl Ove Knausgaard

Author and physician Atul Gawande recommends "My Struggle" by Karl Ove Knausgaard.

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Brian Christian on The Turing Test

What's it like to be part human and part machine?

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Chuck Klosterman on "Mad Men"

Essayist Chuck Klosterman talks with Steve Paulson about TV's "Mad Men."

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David Hughes on Making Movies the Hard Way

David Hughes tells Jim Fleming some of the reasons why a script might never get made into a film.

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Being Cyborg - Neil Harbisson Extended Interview

Artist Neil Harbisson was born greyscale colorblind. He says he liked seeing only in shades of black and white, but he still wanted to experience color. So he developed an implant that would help him hear colors well beyond the normal human spectrum, from ultraviolet to infrareds. 

In this extended conversation, Neil talks about the art he makes with his new sense, and about the challenges of living cyborg.

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Coming of Age in a Funeral Home

Sheri Booker was terrified when she first started working at the Wylie Funeral Home at the age of 15. She was still grieving the death of a beloved aunt, and took the job in the hope of finding a sense of closure. After preparing her first client — a suicide victim with a gunshot wound to the head — something changed. As morbid as it may sound, she was hooked.

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