Ever feel overwhelmed by digital technology? You're not alone. Media theorist Douglas Rushkoff says it's changing our relationship to time, and we're having trouble adapting.
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The Interrupters tells the moving and surprising stories of three "violence interrupters" who try to protect their Chicago communities from the violence they once doled out. They believe that violence spreads like an infectious diseases, so the treatment should be similar: stop the infection at its source.
Photographer Rachel Sussman has documented 30 of the oldest living things in the world.
Jason Merkoski talks about his book, "Burning the Page: The Ebook Revolution and the Future of Reading."
Best-selling writer Elizabeth Gilbert brings an intrepid 19th century woman botanist to life in her latest novel, "The Signature of All Things." In this conversation, she introduces us to the wonder of moss, Darwin's correspondance with "lady scientists" and the 16th century mystic, Jacob Boehme.
How do you make music from plants? Here's a recent article about the artist Mileece.
Saira Shah tells Jim Fleming how her father used stories to give her a sense of her ethnic cultural birthright and how those stories helped her when she worked in Afghanistan.
Sergeant First Class Toby Nunn served two tours of duty in Iraq. He now works for the nonprofit organization Soldiers' Angels, which supports veterans and deployed military personnel and their families.
The protest at the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation has caught fire. Its camp is now larger than most small towns in North Dakota. The protest is not just about an oil pipeline from North Dakota to Illinois. It's about water. Journalist John Fleck, who's spent decades writing about water disputes in the West, tells Anne Strainchamps how the Standing Rock protest figures into this history.
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