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Bill McKibben on a Tough Planet

He sounded the alarm about global warming over 20 years ago. Now he has a model of how to survive on our changed planet.

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David Grossman on "To the End of the Land"

From one of Israel's leading novelists, a gorgeous and searing story about war and grief.

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At the Hour of Our Death - Sarah Sudhoff

Photographer Sarah Sudhoff has made art out of death.

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Connie Barlow on Native Species

Environmental writer Connie Barlow says that rhinos and elephants and tigers are native to North America and that we should bring back the Cheetah.

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Carl Honore on the Slowness Movement

Carl Honore talks with Anne Strainchamps about how the Slowness movement got started and how it's developed into a revolution.

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Dangerous Idea: Can Real Life Superheroes Fight Crime?

Journalist Jon Ronson recounts his memorable night out with a real life superhero named Phoenix Jones. 

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Davy Rothbart on "Found" Magazine

Davy Rothbart is the founder and editor of “Found” Magazine. He reads some samples of the notes and lists he’s found and talks about them with Jim Fleming

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Elizabeth Royte on "The Tapir's Morning Bath"

Writer Elizabeth Royte spent some time on Panama’s Barro Colorado Island, the best-studied rainforest in the world.  She describes some of the naturalists she met and their work in her book “The Tapir’s Morning Bath.”

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