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Feeling Through Trauma - Bessel van der Kolk

“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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Diana Reiss Explores Dolphin Minds

Diana Reiss directs the Dolphin Research Program at the National Aquarium in Baltimore and is a professor in the Psychology Department at Hunter College.  She writes about her findings on dolphin intelligence in the book “Dolphin in the Mirror.”

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El Capitan Daredevils – The story of the few who have climbed the 3000 foot granite wall of Yosemite National Park.

Hiking. Fishing. Camping.  What about using the parks for, well, being a bad ass. The documentary “Valley Uprising” tells the story of the rock climbers who have dared El Capitan – the 3000 foot granite wall of Yosemite National Park. Nick Rosen is the film’s director. He told Steve Paulson that the story starts back in the 1950s. Before climbing wall gyms. Before it was even legal to climb in Yosemite.

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Dangerous Idea: Abolish Debt

Writer and activist Astra Taylor calls for a Jubilee to buy and abolish debt.

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Chris Ware on "Jimmy Corrigan"

Graphic novelist Chris Ware talks with Anne Strainchamps about the hard work of making comic books. Ware is the author of "Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth."

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Funny Lady - Mary Walsh

Mary Walsh has made a career out of comedy. Still, she's not quite sure she's funny. 

Listen in as she talks about political humor, sketch comedy and why it might be easier for outsiders to find funny.

Looking for a clip of her in action? Here it is.

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Clark Strand on Spiritual People

Clark Strand is the author of "How to Believe in God," and a contributing editor at Tricycle: A Buddhist Review.

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Anthony Loyd on "My War Gone By"

Anthony Loyd tells Steve Paulson why he decided to move to Sarajevo and call himself a photojournalist; what living there during the war was like; and how he ended up with a heroin habit.

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