"I’m a different person when I’m in Nepal..." Jeffrey Potter has been documenting life in a village in eastern Nepal for 20 years. During a trip there in 2000, he was present for the death of a young man named Harka. In this story, he talks about how that experience that was both profound and unexplainable.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Amy Gorman's book "Aging Artfully" led to a documentary by Greg Norman called "Still Kicking," profiling six artistic women.
Reporter Ann Hepperman examines the impact Starbucks has had on Flagstaff, Arizona. It’s the homogenization of American culture vs. reliably good coffee!
He tells Steve Paulson that the long tradition of rigorous investigation of the mind undertaken by Buddhism has a lot to teach Western science.
How do you preserve reality in a virtual world? David Fielding tells us in this story about a tribunal tasked with that responsibility.
Andrea di Robilant is an Italian journalist from an old Venetian family who's made a novel out of the story contained in some letters from his family's attic.
Wicca or Neo-paganism began as a movement to recreate pre-Christian nature religions. It turns out to be just what a lot of scientists are looking for.
Neurologist Alice Flaherty talks about the science behind writer’s block, and recounts her own experiences with hypergraphia.
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