Frank Ahearn is a former skip tracer, a Private Investigator who specializes in finding people who don’t want to be found.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Irene Pepperberg teaches animal cognition at Harvard and is an associate research professor at Brandeis. For thirty years, she worked with a remarkable grey parrot named Alex.
James Gimzewski talks about his work recording the vibrations of cells.
Siberia is enormous, but Ian Frazier has crossed it all, from the Baltic Sea to the Pacific Ocean, in a barely functioning van.
America has a thing for Japanese culture. And since the U.S. and its allies occupied Japan after WWII, some Japanese have had a thing for American culture, music in particular.
Michael Bourdaghs talks with Jim Fleming about trading tunes across the Pacific.
James Nolan is a poet, writer and fifth generation New Orleans native. He went through Katrina inside his French Quarter apartment.
The 18th century was not only the Age of Enlightenment. It was also the age when many cities conquered darkness by installing public lighting. Dartmouth historian Darrin McMahon says it's no accident that cities lit up at the same time as the Enlightenment values of rationality and progress flourished.
What separates your mind from an animal's? It's a question we've all asked, but renowned primatologist Frans de Waal says there's no point trying to rank who's smarter or dumber in the animal world. In fact, he believes there's no clear dividing line between humans and the rest of the animal world.
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