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Inocente is a 19 year old girl who grew up in San Diego.  She loves art and is an accomplished painter.  She’s also lived most of her life here as an undocumented immigrant from Mexico. She was the subject of the film that won the 2013 Oscar for best documentary short.  It’s called Inocente. 

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What makes something funny? Deep in the Colorado mountains, researcher Peter McGraw run the Humor Research Lab (HuRL, for short).

He thought he'd found the formula for funny. Then he circled the globe to test his theory. Here's what he found...

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Writer (and gardener) Jamaica Kincaid tells Steve Paulson how she got into gardening, why she’s driven to collect certain species, and why she loves so many British plants.

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Buddhist Chaplain Steve Spiro shares some resources for preparing to die consciously, and to help others do the same. It includes the Advance Directive for Conscious Dying and a guided meditation on death.

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Renowned choreographer Bill T. Jones stopped dancing in his 50s - and recently, did something radical. He created a dance based on John Cage's ideas about chance and randomness. He felt compelled to reinvent his career at this stage of his life.

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Alfred Wallace was the co-discover, with Charles Darwin, of the theory of natural selection.  Wallace was also a great 19th century naturalist who spent years collecting speciments in the Amazon River Basin and later in the Malay Archipelago.  Unlike the aristocratic Darwin, Wallace always had...

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Howie MIller uses humor to change the stereotypes of Native Americans.

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Jacques Berlinerblau says we still don't know how to talk intelligently about religion in public life.  That's why he wrote "How To Be Secular."  He tells us why "secular" doesn't mean "atheist."

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