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Weekly podcast from public radio’s award-winning program Humankind

Aging in Community (Part 1)

Within a decade, America will be looking different. In addition to other demographic changes, 70 million Baby Boomers are now entering their retiremen...
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Karen Armstrong

This is a fascinating dialogue with British historian Karen Armstrong, winner of the TED Prize and best-selling author of The History of God and Field...
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The Good Classroom with Mike Rose

UCLA education professor Mike Rose tells some of the lessons he gained from an unusual tour of public schools around the United States. At a time when...
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The Relaxation Response

A profile of Harvard Medical School professor Dr. Herbert Benson whose pioneering work on the Relaxation Response has helped millions of people learn ...
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Healthy Planet, Healthy People

The chair of the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the winner of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize (along with former Vice President Al Gore), ...
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Human Rights Defender Ben Ferencz

Benjamin Ferencz is an impassioned, heart-filled advocate for human rights and global peace. Now in his 80s, Ferencz devotes all his time and energy t...
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Homeless Students

In this episode, we hear from a homeless public school student, one of an estimated 1.5 million in the United States: “We’d usually try to find a hote...
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Holistic Nurses

We hear from a variety of nurses about the stresses they face in today’s quick-paced medical setting—and how they struggle to find the time needed to ...
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Portrait of a Sufi Master

In this documentary, we visit with a community of Americans who have embraced the peaceful path of the Sufis—an Islamic tradition known for inspiring ...
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Sid Caesar

Sid Caesar was one of American television’s first real superstars, a sensational comedian who delighted sixty million viewers in the nineteen-fifties ...
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