Edward Larson tells Steve Paulson what makes the Islands unique, and why they inspired Charles Darwin to write “The Origin of Species."
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Chris Rodriguez is a felon serving time at Green Haven Correctional Facility in Stormville, NY. Some of his writing is included in the anthology “Undoing Time."
LaNiyah Bailey didn't like being bullied in school. When she was 6 years old she decided to do something about it. She wrote a book.
For as closely linked as the voice is to our body and sense of identity, there are also a lot of external forces affecting our voices, both social and technological. In fact, when we're talking about mediated voices—voices we hear in music, film, and of course, on the radio—we're actually not talking about "voices" any more. We're talking about signal processing. And, as media historian Jonathan Sterne tells Craig Eley, signal processing shapes the sound of all vocal media, from your telephone calls to the music of T-Pain.
David Assman is a German film-maker who spent time with the Iranian women's National Football Team as they played their first game in decades.
Claire Tomalin has written a biography of nineteenth century novelist Thomas Hardy which reveals that he thought of himself as primarily a poet.
Environmental writer Connie Barlow says that rhinos and elephants and tigers are native to North America and that we should bring back the Cheetah.
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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