How important is this discovery of hominin fossils in the Rising Star Cave? Paleoanthropologist John Hawks says it overturns many of our assumptions about human prehistory, and also raises profound questions about what these human-like creatures thought about death and ritual.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
Audio
Silence is disappearing in our world. This one of the world's leading audio ecologists brought lots of interesting sonic examples for us to hear.
Jim Fleming talks with Harvey Pekar about "American Splendor" and his friendship with Robert Crumb.
George Saunders talks about his new short-story collection, "Tenth of December."
Naturalist Gretel Ehrlich tells Steve Paulson why she visited at length with Inuit people in Greenland.
Holley Bishop is a New York literary agent who once wouldn’t have cared about nature. These days she’s flat-out in love with bees, and has written “Robbing the Bees - A Biography of Honey.”
After a six-year wait, Martin’s "A Dance With Dragons" finally hits bookstores.
Glenn Tilbrook talks to TTBOOK producer Doug Gordon about his musical career – as a solo artist and as a co-founder of one of the most acclaimed bands from the New Wave era, Squeeze.
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