Sheri Booker was terrified when she first started working at the Wylie Funeral Home at the age of 15. She was still grieving the death of a beloved aunt, and took the job in the hope of finding a sense of closure. After preparing her first client — a suicide victim with a gunshot wound to the head — something changed. As morbid as it may sound, she was hooked.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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David Whyte tells Anne Strainchamps there’s always a way to find meaning at work.
If the mall-as-temple turns you off, you may be ready for Reverend Billy and the Church of Stop Shopping.
Writer and activist Astra Taylor calls for a Jubilee to buy and abolish debt.
Christian Lander sees himself as an expert on "Stuff White People Like".
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.
Physicist Clifford Pickover talks with Steve Paulson about Magic Squares and why people get hooked on them.
From the tiniest microscopic particles to some of the biggest structures on earth, the new science of astrobiology is leading the way to the discovery of life elsewhere in the universe. Dimitar Sasselov explains why the creation of the world's first artificial cells will revolutionize lifeon our planet.
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