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For all the debate around improving education, researcher Maria Ferguson says there's a critical piece that's often overlooked: how do you motivate…

In the desolate deserts of Namibia, the esteemed nature writer Rick Bass espied glints of hope in a time of ecological disaster. He says that people in…

Friday, we're talking about why you should read "Moby-Dick." Our guide is the historian Nathaniel Philbrick, whose award-winning book "In the Heart of the…

In 1964, America was on the brink of a cultural revolution. The civil rights movement, portable music, the Vietnam War, the rise of black power and the…

Independent radio producer David Isay worried that the stories collected for the Story Corps project would eventually get repetitive and would only be…

Like every other organism on the planet, humans evolved over thousands of years to survive and thrive under rather specific circumstances. But what…

Decades before social media, there was Dungeons & Dragons. Since the 70s the collaborative game has been the center of one of the original nerd…

Wednesday, Doug is joined by author and historian Nathaniel Philbrick for a grassroots look at the American Revolution. His latest book takes to the…

We continue our Through the Lens documentary series with a portrait of activism and unrest from Cairo's Tahrir Square. The film is called "The Square,"…

Thursday, we’re telling the story of Somalia’s pirates. Our guest is Jay Bahadur, whose first real experience as a journalist came in 2008 when he…