Like a lot of great innovators, Ida Tin wanted something that didn’t exist, so, she built it. It’s a period tracking app called Clue, and the more you tell it—about your mood and your cycle—the more it can tell you about your reproductive health. On the surface, Clue is a tool for individuals to track menstruation. But Ida's real goal is nothing short of transforming women's health around the world. She’s part of a new wave of renegade thinkers who believe that everyday data can give everyday people more power over their lives.
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Bart Plantenga tells Steve Paulson about the global reach of yodeling – from Switzerland to Africa to popular music and film...
Dan Price, author of "Radical Simplicity: Creating an Authentic Life," tells Jim Fleming how his efforts to keep down-sizing his life led him to live and work in a hole in the ground.
Death is the one that no one can survive. Unless… well, it depends on just how dead you are.
With more than a billion Muslims in the world, many of whom supposedly hate the U.S., why haven't there been more terrorist attacks? Charles Kurzman says the important story about Muslim terrorism is how little of it there is.
A compilation of Anne Strainchamps talking with Bill Penzey of Penzeys Spices about vanilla, fennel seed, and nutmeg.
“In the culture people talk about trauma as an event that happened a long time ago. But what trauma is, is the imprints that event has left on your mind and in your sensations... the discomfort you feel and the agitation you feel and the rage and the helplessness you feel right now.”
Psychiatrist Bessel van der Kolk is helping people with post traumatic stress disorder focus less on talking about their stories, and more on how their stories feel, how they sound, look, or smell.
You can also hear van der Kolk's extended interview, including more on yoga and the neuroscience of trauma.
Clinical psychologist Daniel Goleman talks about how his discovery of Buddhist psychology shaped his life and career, as well as his best-selling book, "Emotional Intelligence."
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