Doug Quin is trying to help us tune certain sounds in, sounds we don't consider worth hearing -- from the sound of a spider sucking blood from an insect to the sound of a tree falling in a forest.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Carl Safina tells Jim Fleming about the leatherback turtle, which has been around for a hundred million years.
Daniel Kalder is from Scotland, but lived in Russia for several years and discovered that at heart he's an anti-tourist.
DBC Pierre won this year’s Booker Prize for his novel, “Vernon God Little.” Pierre reads from the book and talks about it and about his own tangled past.
For eight years Anu Garg has been sending e-mail to a half million people in two hundred countries around the world, but it's not spam. It's "A Word a Day," a message with a definition, the word's etymology and an example of how to use it.
Eric Morel is boxing’s flyweight World Champion. He was born in Puerto Rico but now lives and trains in Wisconsin. TTBOOK’s Charles Monroe Kane joined Morel at the gym for a day.
David Brooks tells Steve Paulson the old ways of schools need to change.
Azby Brown is an American architect who lives in Tokyo. He tells Jim Fleming how a Japanese family of four can live comfortably in a house under 1000 square feet in size.
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