Candacy Taylor is an award-winning photographer, writer and visual artist.
Candacy Taylor is an award-winning photographer, writer and visual artist.
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Karen Russell bookmarks "A High Wind in Jamaica," by Richard Hughes.
Birute Galdikas talks about her almost other-worldly experience of living with orangutans in Borneo.
Nobel Prize-winning psychologist Daniel Kahneman is fascinated by the way memory shapes our sense of self. But he says our memories can be quite different from what we actually experience.
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