The Tarahumara tribe of Mexico grow up running barefoot and live very long lives happily running into advanced old age...
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Chiori Miyagawa is a playwright in New York and teaches at Bard College. “Comet Hunter” is the story of Caroline Herschel who collaborated with her brother William during the 18th and early 19th centuries and made several important contributions to astronomy.
John Waters recommends the 1968 Elizabeth Taylor/Richard Burton film, "Boom!"
When it comes to loyalty, dogs win. Now, new evidence suggests dogs and early humans formed an alliance 36,000 years ago. Together, they drove Neanderthals to extinction, then invaded and conquered the rest of the planet.
She is the child of fundamentalist Christians but her father was a forest ranger and she grew up in a remote wilderness cabin.
Elizabeth Samet teaches literature to future Army officers at West Point. She tells Jim Fleming why her class reads Wilfred Owen and Homer, and what lessons they draw from the poetry.
Earl Scruggs talks with Steve Paulson about his long history in blue grass and country music.
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