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Bart Plantenga tells Steve Paulson about the global reach of yodeling – from Switzerland to Africa to popular music and film...

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Dan Price, author of "Radical Simplicity: Creating an Authentic Life," tells Jim Fleming how his efforts to keep down-sizing his life led him to live and work in a hole in the ground.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Death is the one that no one can survive. Unless… well, it depends on just how dead you are. 

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

A compilation of Anne Strainchamps talking with Bill Penzey of Penzeys Spices about vanilla, fennel seed, and nutmeg.

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Poet Edward Hirsch bookmarks Alice Oswald's "Memorial: A Version of Homer's Iliad."

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Commentator Aubrey Ralph is bipolar, and says he has been living in a storm for most of his life...

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“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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What role does sound play in Franz Kafka's fiction?

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