Julia Whitty tells Jim Fleming about her life as a master diver and film-maker among the coral reefs in the South Pacific.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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John Pollack collected well over a hundred thousand wine corks and used them to build a replica of a Viking ship which he then sailed in Portugal.
In “The Hunt for Zero Point” Nick Cook writes about the secret world of research into anti-gravity technology.
Peter Klimley is the world’s leading expert on Hammerhead and Great White sharks. He tells Jim Fleming what Hollywood got wrong in “Jaws."
Neurologist Oliver Sacks is famous for his stories of people with brain disorders. In his book "Musicophilia," he writes about people who were transformed by music.
"See them before they're gone" is the Lanza family's motto. Michael Lanza describes his quest to take his two young kids -- ages 7 and 9 -- to as many wilderness locations as possible, to see glaciers and icebergs and coral reefs, before climate change destroys them.
Do do I look good in this dress? We all know the answer, right? It’s "you look great." Even if that’s not quite true.
The Poetry Foundation's mandate is to support "a vigorous presence for poetry." In our digital age, that means getting poems onto our screens, big and small. Catherine Halley run the Foundation's digital programs.
Also, you can hear more poems from Nikki Giovanni here!
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