Russell Foster tells Jim Fleming how the body uses light to tell time; why night shift workers have more accidents; and why it can matter when you take your medicine.
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By now, it's almost commonplace to worry that the amount of time you spend on the Internet is actually rewiring your brain. But the first person to really put the issue on the cultural map was the writer Nicholas Carr -- in a book that's become a contemporary classic: "The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains."
Sarah Stewart Taylor is a Vermont mystery writer who's fascinated by cemeteries. She walks through the Sawnee Bean Cemetery near Thetford, Vermont with Steve Paulson.
We look back at the legacy of the sixties: Tom Hayden, one of the founders of Students for a Democratic Society and later a State Assemblyman and Senator in California, talks with Steve Paulson.
Tyler Gallagher is the 2005 All-American Soap Box Derby Super Stock World Champion. Jeff Iula is the Derby’s General Manager...
Master gardener Sharon Lovejoy tells Anne Strainchamps that there’s a lot of truth in old wives’ tales about gardens and shares her solutions for getting rid of pests from aphids to deer.
Yo-Yo Ma has founded the Silk Road Ensemble in an effort to bring together musicians from different backgrounds to use music as a cultural force for understanding and peace.
Stan Freberg visits Jim Fleming and explains how he got into advertising, and why his commercials always tell the truth.
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