Ian Baker describes his eight separate trips to find the hidden waterfall at the end of the Tsangpo Gorge. It's the legendary gateway to Shangri-La.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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James Lasdun talks about his book, "Give Me Everything You Have: On Being Stalked."
Garrison Keillor, host of A Prairie Home Companion, recalls his coming of age in his novel, “Lake Woebegon: Summer of 1956.”
Gretchen Reynolds talks with Jim Fleming about the theories concerning running and the body.
Geoffrey Colvin says that great performance is within the grasp of anyone who's willing to put in the right kind of practice.
Glenn Kurtz was a child prodigy of sorts and headed for a big concert career as a classical guitarist. But it didn't happen. Now he's playing again but for the joy of it.
How does what you believe affect how you die? Watch as a historian, a psychologist and a sociologist talk about how people around the world confront their mortality.
Harriet Brown had a smart, happy daughter who was stricken in adolescence by anorexia.
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