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Maya Angelou introduces herself and explains how she came to be known as Maya. http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2014/05/28/147369802/maya-angelou-poet-activist-and-singular-storyteller-dies-at-86?utm_source=twitter.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=atc&utm_term=nprnews&utm_content=20140528

Maya Angelou Explains Her Name

A sonic journey across the sacred landscape lorded over by a warrior god. His mountain abode, Kawakarpo is a traditional pilgrimage site for Tibetan Buddhists.

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Tibetan Songscape (binaural/headphones)

The crack and roll of an air shattering pre-dawn thunderstorm acts as a fitting prelude to the roars and bellows of a bull elephant proclaiming that the Dzanga- Sangha rainforest of central Africa is his domain.

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Storm & Elephant African Rainforest (binaural/headphones)

The discovery of whale song in the 1960’s was a revelation for scientists. Their research demonstrated that whales sing in structured phrases not unlike those found in human song form. Song variations are created and shared communally by whales often separated by great distances.

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Humback Whale Above And Below (binaural/headphones)

Thievery Corporation plays their remix of the classic All Things Considered theme. On Friday, Jan. 16, they will play all of ATC's music breaks LIVE in-studio.  http://www.npr.org/2015/01/14/377259172/thievery-corporation-all-things-considereds-in-house-band-for-a-day

Thievery Corporation Does All Things Considered Theme

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Hear Elizabeth Lowell, author of the new novel, Perfect Touch, talk about how it was her husband who encouraged her to write her first romance novel (and how she came to the name ‘Elizabeth Lowell’), her belief that you are never through learning in life, how she hope her readers feel renewed vs. ‘chewed’, and the challenge of the ‘great sagging middle’ of every novel. 

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Afghanistan Parliament Attack: Newscast Reader Demo

Genetics describes DNA sequencing, but epigenetics sees that genes can be turned on and off and expressed differently through changes in environment and behavior. Rachel Yehuda is a pioneer in understanding how the effects of stress and trauma can transmit biologically, beyond cataclysmic events, to the next generation. She has studied the children of Holocaust survivors and of pregnant women who survived the 9/11 attacks. But her science is a form of power for flourishing beyond the traumas large and small that mark each of our lives and those of our families and communities.

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Rachel Yehuda — The Power of "How Are You?"

Ben discusses the shameful epidemic of pederasty on US military bases in Afghanistan and the media's predictable over-reaction to the faux-controversy that is Ben Carson saying adherence to Islam would disqualify a candidate from the presidency.

Ep. 1 - The Obama Administration Excuses Child-Rape in Afghanistan as 'Their Culture'

British troops in Afghanistan are being pulled out of one of the most dangerous parts of the country. Sangin's seen some of the fiercest fighting involving our servicemen. The government's expected to say later - that power will be handed over to US authorities.

British troops in Afghanistan pulled out dangerous Sangin

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