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All Things Considered

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On this edition of A Beautiful World, Heather McElhatton talks to adventurer, explorer and millionaire Forrest Fenn, who’s eighty-three years old and has been called “a modern-day Indiana Jones,” after spending a lifetime hunting down and amassing a huge personal collection of artifacts, antiquities and treasures from all over the world.  When Fenn was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, he decided to leave his treasure behind, at least part of it, as well as a taste of what he’s been experiencing his whole life; Action, adventure and intrigue. Fenn says he’s filled a large golden treasure chest with a veritable king’s ransom, a pile of his favorite artifacts, including gold coins, rubies, emeralds, carved jade figures and gold nuggets “as big as chicken eggs,” valued in the millions. Fenn claims to have hidden this treasure chest somewhere in the Rocky Mountains and left nine clues to find it inside a poem published in his memoir, The Thrill of the Chase. MPR reporter Dan Olson reads Fenn’s poem titled: Where the Treasure Lies.

"A Beautiful World" is a news program produced by American Public Media that focuses on inspirational stories from around the world, featuring good news about science, technology, ecology, art, music and medicine. The program is hosted by best-selling author Heather McElhatton, whom listeners may know from her contributions to This American Life, Marketplace and MPR News. Visit www.prettylittlemistakes.com for more stories and audio collections.

Millionaire Leaves Clues to Find Treasure

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Neil deGrasse Tyson talks about life and death in his interview with Heather McElhatton on A Beautiful World. Dr. Tyson is an astrophysicist with the American Museum of Natural History, director of the world-famous Hayden Planetarium, a monthly columnist for Natural History, host of the award-winning TV series, "Cosmos" and an award-winning author. His newest series of books was published by W.W. Norton and is available in paperback. books.wwnorton.com/books/Neil-deGrasse-Tyson/

"A Beautiful World" is a news program produced by American Public Media that focuses on inspirational stories from around the world, featuring good news about science, technology, ecology, art, music and medicine. The program is hosted by best-selling author Heather McElhatton, whom listeners may know from her contributions to This American Life, Marketplace and MPR News. Visit www.prettylittlemistakes.com for more stories and audio collections.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson on Living, Dying and How Lucky You Are to Be Here.

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On this episode of A Beautiful World Heather McElhatton speaks with Dr. Delony Langer-Anderson about the Discovery Education 3M Young Scientist Challenge. Dr. Langer-Anderson has a PhD. in analytic chemistry and works for 3M as a new product developer in the consumer health division. She's worked on iconic projects such as Scotch Blue Painters Tape and good old fashioned Duct Tape. She also studied to become an elementary school teacher before settling on a career in chemistry - so she was a natural to tap when 3M needed a mentor for the Discovery Education 3M Young Scientist Challenge. She says kids - particularly middle school kids are often overlooked by adults when you think about solving real-life problems...but they shouldn't be.  She says kids - particularly middle school kids are often overlooked by adults when you think about solving real-life problems...but they shouldn't be.  Here is ample proof that kids DO have great ideas that not only make the world better, they can make good money too. Winners of the Discovery Education 3M Young Scientist Challenge take home 25K and even second-place finalists, like Brooke Martin, can go on to turn their ideas into lucrative business. For more information on the Discovery Education 3M Young Scientist Challenge, go to www.youngscientistchallenge.com 

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Young Scientists Win Big in 3M/Discovery Challenge

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Ever wonder how sound and music affects your central nervous system? Turns out its similar to how it affects dogs. Heather McElhatton interviews classical pianist and "Dog Music" composer Lisa Spector and her colleague Joshua Leeds, a world-renowned expert in bio acoustics about their book and accompanying CD series "Through a Dogs Ears." More information at: http://throughadogsear.com/

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Healing Music for Dogs?

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When Mick Ebeling heard about a 14-yr-old boy named Daniel living in a refugee camp in Sudan, who had lost both his arms during a raid, he decided he had to do something, despite having no medical training whatsoever.   So Mick crowdsourced the problem and an inventive design for a new prosthetic arm emerged. Mick flew with his designs and a 3D printer to Sudan's Nuba Mountains, where he set up the first 3D-printing prosthetic lab and training facility in Sudan.   

"A Beautiful World" is a news program produced by American Public Media that focuses on inspirational stories from around the world, featuring good news about science, technology, ecology, art, music and medicine. The program is hosted by best-selling author Heather McElhatton, whom listeners may know from her contributions to This American Life, Marketplace and MPR News. Visit www.prettylittlemistakes.com for more stories and audio collections.

Project Daniel: Prosthetics for Kids in Sudan

Heather McElhatton talks to James Wannerton, who has a neurological condition called "Lexical-Gustatory Synesthesia," which allows him to taste sound. To better explain his condition he mapped out the entire London Underground with stations and their corresponding flavors.

See enlarged map here: 
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/road-and-rail-transport/10257633/What-do-London-Underground-stops-taste-like.html

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Synesthesia - Tasting the London Underground

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Heather McElhatton talks to the authors of Ocean Worlds about their new book, which details the history of not only our ocean here on earth, but of oceans on other planets in our solar system as well. 

Author Mark Williams is a Professor of Geology at the University of Leicester and has served on the council of the Palaeontographical Society in London, both as an editor and vice-president.

Co-Author Jan Zalasiewicz is a Senior Lecturer in Geology at the University of Leicester and on the Council of the Geological Society of London.

"A Beautiful World" is a news program produced by American Public Media that focuses on inspirational stories from around the world, featuring good news about science, technology, ecology, art, music and medicine. The program is hosted by best-selling author Heather McElhatton, whom listeners may know from her contributions to This American Life, Marketplace and MPR News. Visit www.prettylittlemistakes.com for more stories and audio collections.

Learn more about the book:
USA:     http://www.amazon.com/Ocean-Worlds-story-Earth-planets/dp/0199672881
UK: http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/9780199672882.do

Ocean Worlds: Oceans in outer space.

You know a positive attitude can help your situation, but how do you get positive when you are currently ANGRY, WORRIED, UPSET or even TERRIFIED?  Well THIS IS THE WAY! The Gift of Maybe by Allison Carmen can help you crowbar your way into happiness.  Listen to find out what the Gift of Maybe can do for you (HINT: Possibly A LOT)

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 A Beautiful World Podcast: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/a-beautiful-world/id986469943?mt=2

The Gift Of Maybe

The Nile Project shows us that making music together can help people solving problems together.  TNP is a musical collaboration program founded by Egyptian ethnomusicologist Mina Girgis and Ethiopian-American singer Meklit Hadero to address the Nile Basin’s cultural and environmental challenges.

The Nile Project brings together artists from the 11 Nile countries to make music that combines the region’s diverse instruments, languages and traditions. The concert experience aims to inspire cultural curiosity, highlight regional connections, and showcase the potential of trans-boundary cooperation.

Participatory workshops and cross-cultural dialogues provide university students with unique intellectual experiences, deepening their understanding of the Nile ecosystem, and stimulating new ways of thinking, communicating, and doing.

The Nile Fellowship and Nile Prize programs incentivize university students to apply their education and training toward mobilizing their peers and pioneering innovative solutions to the Nile Basin’s complex and inter-related challenges.

Learn more about The Nile Project: 
http://www.nileproject.org/

Listen to music by the Nile Project on Soundcloud:
https://soundcloud.com/nileproject


The Nile Project

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TALKING STORY is a documentary film and companion book by Marie-Rose Phan-Lê that chronicles the lives, rituals and wisdom of healers and spiritual leaders from diverse world cultures.The film transports the viewer into a world of exotic places, sacred practices and practical applications in the art of healing, from the beaches of Hawaii to the heights of the Himalayas. What emerges is a series of intimate portraits of healers and spiritual teachers as both human and divine. More at: www.talkingstorybook.com 

"A Beautiful World" is a news program produced by American Public Media that focuses on inspirational stories from around the world, featuring good news about science, technology, ecology, art, music and medicine. The program is hosted by best-selling author Heather McElhatton, whom listeners may know from her contributions to This American Life, Marketplace and MPR News. Visit www.abeautiful.world for more stories and audio collections.

Talking Story

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Over 2 million dogs are euthanized in U.S. shelters every year due to lack of space. Shelters have nowhere to put animals or people to care for them. Could prisons offer a unique solution?  "Dogs on the Inside"  follows a group of prisoners in Massachusetts who're part a special animal rescue program called "Don't Throw us Away," which pairs rescue dogs with prisoners.  Visit www.dogsontheinside.com to watch the full documentary.

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Prisoners Help Lost Dogs

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Author and journalist Heather Lende writes obituaries for the Chillkat Valley News, a small newspaper in her hometown, Haines, Alaska. her new book 'find the good' chronicles the many  lessons she's learned about finding the good in people and situations ...where its not always obvious.

Read more about the book: http://minnesota.publicradio.org/events/2013/11/a-beautiful-world/alaskan-obits.shtml

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Obituaries that Appeal to the Angels

Canadian Explorer, Adam Shoalts discovered 7 waterfalls on the "Again River" in Canada's remote Hudson Valley Lowlands. He discovered the falls, by literally falling over them and he's  the first known person to traverse the entire length of the river. 

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Adam Shoalts: Modern-Day Indiana Jones

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Matthieu Ricard is a venerated Buddhist Monk and a celebrated cellular geneticist. He's been described as a human “Rosetta Stone,” he’s able to speak in multiple and often-conflicting languages all at once: Scientifically, spiritually, plainly and with great complexity. He’s also fluent in Chinese, Tibetan, French and English. His unusual history contributed to this composite expertise, Ricard left a prominent career in cellular genetics over forty-five years ago to study Buddhism in the Himalayas. He’s now the Dalai Lama’s French interpreter and an internationally bestselling author of many book, including his latest publication, "Altruism: The Power of Compassion to Change Yourself and the World.”

Get the book: http://www.amazon.com/Altruism-Power-Compassion-Change-Yourself/dp/0316208248
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Altruism Changes Your Brain. Literally.

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Tom Davies (Pronounced Davis) is 19 years old and lives in London. He finished high school last summer and wanted to do something “different” for his gap year, which is a British expression for the year many high school students take off before starting college.  So, being an enthusiastic cyclist… he decided to bicycle around the world.... and become the youngest person to ever circumnavigate the globe.

UPDATE: On Sunday, August 10th, 2015 Tom Davies returned to his home in Battersea and successfully completed his trip, becoming the youngest known person to ever bike around the world. 

LINKS:

Tom Davies Webpage: http://tomdaviesrtw.com/

Donation page: <http://uk.virginmoneygiving.com/fundraiser-web/fundraiser/showFundraiserPage.action?userUrl=tomdaviesrtw&faId=533301&isTeam=false>

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Tom Davies - youngest person to ever bike around the world

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Professor David Macdonald is director of the Wildlife Conservation Research Unit at the University of Oxford, in the UK. His team found their research thrust into the international limelight last week, after one of the lions he was studying named Cecil was brutally slaughtered by an American trophy Hunter from Bloomington, Minnesota.

While much of the press this story has received has been negative and dark MacDonald says much good has and will come of this event, including the fact the research teams anti-poaching patrols were about to be shut down due to lack of funds and now will continue,  thanks to this infusion of global concern. For more information and to support the program, visit: www.wildcru.org

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"This is a Moment in History." The Silver Lining of Cecil the Lion

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Once upon a time, there was a little barber shop in Downtown Dubuque, Iowa called the Spark Family Hair Salon. It’s a friendly and cozy place, even though it’s located on a not-so-great street, in an economically-challenged neighborhood, nestled right between a gun store and a pawn shop.

Inside the little salon is a barber named Courtney D. Holmes, a forty-five year old man with horn-rimmed glasses, an easy smile and wide shoulders, who gives free haircuts to underprivileged kids, in exchange for them reading out loud to him. “I’ve got two sons of my own.” he says. “I just want to help kids start reading.”

Donate to the Barber Reading Challenge:
http://www.gofundme.com/readingchallenge

More on the Story:
http://www.abeautiful.world/stories/the-story-book-barber/

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Barber gives free haircuts to kids that read

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As a poet, philosopher, and cancer survivor, Mark Nepo has been breaking a path of spiritual inquiry for more than thirty years. In his new book, the #1 New York Times bestselling author explores how the soul works in the world.

Called “one of the finest spiritual guides of our time,” this beloved teacher explores what it means to become our truest self through the ongoing and timeless journey of awakening to the dynamic wholeness of life, which is messy and unpredictable. 

Nepo navigates some of the soul’s deepest and most ancient questions, such as: What does it mean to inhabit the world? How do we stay vital and buoyant amid the storms of life? What is the secret to coming alive? Nepo affirms that not only is the soul’s journey inevitable, it is essential to our survival. The human journey is how the force of life grows us, and no matter where we go we can’t escape this foundational truth: What’s in the way is the way. As Nepo writes, “The point of experience is not to escape life but to live it.”

Featured on Oprah’s Super Soul Sunday program, Nepo has inspired millions of people to redefine themselves in the face of life’s challenges. Comforting, moving, and spiritually practical, The Endless Practice is filled with universal insights about living life to the fullest.

LINKS:
More about Mark - http://marknepo.com/about_bio.php

Get the Book - http://books.simonandschuster.com/The-Endless-Practice/Mark-Nepo/9781476774664

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Mark Nepo - The Endless Practice

Why do elephants line up to hug this little old lady? BECAUSE BABY ELEPHANT ORPHANAGE! Amazing place, good people trying to rescue baby elephants orphaned by ivory poachers. Listen here for practical ways to help - It's a big moment for wildlife right now. Must stay vigilant - and everyone adopt an elephant! We can fix this together. 
-More on the Story http://www.abeautiful.world/stories/the-first-elephant-orphanage-in-africa/   VIDEO https://youtu.be/PuAqp-5cod8
- Foster a baby elephant http://www.sheldrickwildlifetrust.org/asp/fostering.asp

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1st Baby Elephant Orphange in Africa

Prince died today. I got a call at noon to get into the studio quick - they wanted me on-air. I was Prince's set decorator in the 90's. He called me 'girl chick.' and built countless sets for him at Paisley Park. He had me decorate the inside of his limos and every greenroom at every venue he played. There was a LOT of purple chiffon, purple velour and purple velvet. There was a lot of everything weird kinky and bizarre too, including things that required me to sign nondisclosure agreements. There were the marathon shoots, the secret vault, the time he bought an ice cream truck... Here I talk live on air with Tom Weber and a host of fans, friends and crew calling in to share their memories.  I Hope we can do the His Purple Majesty justice. 

I was Prince's Set Decorator

"A Beautiful World" is a news program  that focuses on inspirational stories from around the world, featuring good news about science, technology, ecology, art, music and medicine.  The program is hosted by author and journalist Heather McElhatton, who listeners know from her contributions to This American Life, Marketplace and MPR News.  
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