Amy Vedder and Bill Weber founded the Mountain Gorilla Project in Rwanda some twenty five years ago. They explain how they envision eco-tourism preserving the gorilla habitat.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Don't ask Anna Dietrich if she invented a car that can fly. No one can do that she says. She did, however, invent a plane that can drive.
Aimee McCormick and Andra Mitrovich spent years touring in a two-woman play called, “Love, Janis.” They talk about how much of herself Janis Joplin poured into her performances.
"I’m a different person when I’m in Nepal..." Jeffrey Potter has been documenting life in a village in eastern Nepal for 20 years. During a trip there in 2000, he was present for the death of a young man named Harka. In this story, he talks about how that experience that was both profound and unexplainable.
Alison Hawthorne Deming reads "Chauvet" - her poem about the French cave with ancient art painted on its walls.
Andrew Carroll is the founder of the Legacy Project which collects and publishes letters from combatants and their families and friends, and others who have been touched by the experience of war.
A.C. Grayling talks about the western Allies’ use of carpet bombing against civilian populations in both the European and Pacific theaters during WWII.
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