In 1969, Frederic Whitehurst was in Viet Nam, burning captured enemy documents. He saved the diary of a young woman, and many years later returned it to her mother.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Father Thomas Keating is considered by some people one of the world's greatest living mystics.
Doug Quin is trying to help us tune certain sounds in, sounds we don't consider worth hearing -- from the sound of a spider sucking blood from an insect to the sound of a tree falling in a forest.
Carl Safina tells Jim Fleming about the leatherback turtle, which has been around for a hundred million years.
Ben Folds is fascinated with the human voice, especially in the genre of A Cappella music.
Daniel Kammen, director of the Renewable and Appropriate Energy Lab at the University of California/Berkeley tells Anne Strainchamps about some wild energy alternatives that actually work.
Christa Weil talks about eating national dishes like putrefied shark meat and her curious experience eating blow fish in Japan.
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