Nalini Nadkarni has been called “the queen of canopy research,” in part because of her personal philosophy to bring together two groups - the trees and the general public. She does this by collaborating with dancers, rappers, artists, and prisoners, just to name only a few. She created the Big Canopy Database to help researchers around the world to store the rich trove of data she and others are uncovering.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Charles Matthewes tells Steve Paulson that while some acts deserve to be condemned, we should be careful not to exclude the perpetrators from the human race.
David Thomson makes the case that "Psycho" was a ground-breaking film that forever changed American cinema and America itself.
Poet Steve Roggenbuck BookMarks "Feminism is for Everybody" by Bell Hooks.
Legal scholar Cass Sunstein believes humans are innately irrational.
Sociologist Doug Maynard talks with Anne Strainchamps about the different styles of sharing bad news and how sometimes the speaker’s style can undermine the content of the message.
David Assman is a German film-maker who spent time with the Iranian women's National Football Team as they played their first game in decades.
Ok, take a breath. Close your eyes. Recall the home of your childhood. Can you smell the cookies in the kitchen? Can you open a drawer in your bedroom? Do you see the sunlight through a window? Every building has a story. . . And not only a story, every building has a sound. Many sounds actually.
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