The Intelligence of Plants
Unknown Yet 28,120Plants are intelligent; perform complex mathematical computations; plan for the future; and even interpret meaning. ...
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Peace Pilgrim's Last Interview
Unknown Yet 28,065How far would you go to "live" on a daily basis something you believed in? Would you go over 25,000 miles? Would you ...
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Why It's Worth Listening to People You Disagree With
Unknown Yet 19,027Zachary R. Wood invites controversy into his life. Raised by a schizophrenic mother, he learned that people are ...
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What Is Time and Does It Always Move Forward?
Unknown Yet 18,416"While we take for granted that time has a given direction, physicists don't: most natural laws are time reversible ...
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Caring for Self and Others in Troubled Times
Unknown Yet 17,347"Warm greetings of peace, hope, and healing to you and yours. As we navigate these perilous waters of our common ...
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Jean Vanier: the Wisdom of Tenderness
Unknown Yet 15,005Jean Vanier's life demonstrates tenderness. A philosopher, a Catholic social innovator, and the founder of The ...
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Spirit of the Earth: Indian Voices on Nature
Unknown Yet 12,637It is indigenous communities who often bear the biggest brunt of environmental crisis -- and who continue to put ...
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Maria Popova: Books Are the Original Internet
Unknown Yet 11,727Maria Popova is a Bulgarian-born writer, blogger, literary and cultural critic living in Brooklyn, New York. She ...
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The Woman Beside Wendell Berry
Unknown Yet 7,762"Here's my portrait of Tanya Berry: This white-haired 81-year-old is a fiercely independent thinker who embraces ...
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The Nature of Gratitude
Unknown Yet 7,358The Nature of Gratitude is a portable program that has been exported to a variety of venues in communities committed ...
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Love Liberates: Maya Angelou's Words to Live By
Unknown Yet 7,340Maya Angelou eloquently describes how her mother taught her through her actions that love liberates, it does not ...
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The Animal Rescuer of Assam
Unknown Yet 6,617Manoj Gogoi is a 44-year old father of two and self-taught naturalist dedicating his life to assisting the people ...
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Iyore (I Return)
Unknown Yet 6,492"My name is Imuetinyan Ugiagbe and I am a visual storyteller who happens to be visually impaired. The title of the ...
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Quantitative and Qualitative Healing
Unknown Yet"A bit over a year ago, my grandmother passed away. During the last couple of years of her life, she was dealing ...
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The Challenges of Raising a Digital Native
Unknown YetDr. Devorah Heitner's research into the challenges of raising children in the digital age is a tremendous resource ...
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Lewis Hyde: to Study the Self Is to Forget the Self
Unknown YetIn this lively conversation with Lewis Hyde, author and critic, (his latest: A Primer for Forgetting), he offers a ...
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The Atomic Tree
Unknown YetThis moving video takes us on a journey into the memories of one of the world's most revered trees, a 400 year old ...
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Random Acts of Kindness Education Workshops
Unknown YetWe often think of kindness as something a person has, or doesn't. But kindness, like all actions and skills, can be ...
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Gandhi 3.0: a Grand Rehearsal of Unconditional Love
Unknown YetIn the heart of Mahatma Gandhi's homeland, is a modern-day experiment of the timeless Law of Love. They call it ...
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Burning Insight
Unknown YetDr. Jay Bansal lost his home in the Tubbs fire last year in California. He reflects: "Fire is a powerful and ...
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The Shadow of Humanity and the Spirit of Animals
Unknown Yet"Krista Tippett and Jane Goodall are two pioneering women in their fields. Krista is perhaps best known for her work ...
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The Monk the Butcher & the Origins of Deep Counting
Unknown YetOur lives are based on what we count and how we count it. Somik Raha asks what would be different in our lives if we ...
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Expanding the Spirit of Democracy
Unknown Yet"How might we unlock hope in an expansive spirit of democracy for present and future generations in this time of ...
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How to Build a More Inclusive Dinner Table
Unknown YetHow we eat, and who we eat with matters much more than we realize. For generations Muslims and Jews have often had ...
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Once I Took a Weeklong Walk in the Sahara
Unknown Yet"Tracing an ancient route across the Sahara Desert once caravanned by pilgrims on their journey to Mecca, Anna ...
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The Thinking Person's Checklist
Unknown Yet"Last fall Alan Jacobs published a slim book with a bold title: How to Think: A Survival Guide for a World at Odds. ...
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How the Jump Rope Got Its Rhythm
Unknown YetThe jump rope may be a simple object but for countless generations it has served as a powerful symbol of culture and ...
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21 Lessons on Leadership and Love From an Uncommon Master
Unknown YetFrederic Pignon and his wife, Magali Delgado, travel the world performing and leading horsemanship and dressage ...
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People Helped You Whether You Knew It or Not
Unknown YetWilliam Weaver, currently the chief of surgery at the Fayetteville VA Medical Center in North Carolina, doesn't ...
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A Doctor for Life: Ann Petru
Unknown YetDr. Petru was just starting out as a young doctor when the AIDs epidemic began. She recalls, "As I started seeing a ...
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Spotlight on Peacemakers
Unknown YetIt is so easy to stir the stew, to add your own spice and heat to it until it boils over rendering anything inside ...
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How Rituals Support Us
Unknown Yet"I dont know if I could have survived seven years of my childhood without the soul-saving rituals of my Persian ...
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Cheryl Angel: Water Is Life
Unknown YetCheryl Angel is an indigenous leader, wise (Sioux) Lakota elder woman, mother of five children, and lifelong devoted ...
Read MoreThe Man Who Wasn't There: Explorations at the Edge of Self
Unknown YetWhat makes you, you or I, I? That is the age-old question science journalist Anil Ananthaswamy tackles in his book, ...
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Transforming Food
Unknown Yet"Weaving webs around the highways of northeast England, the REfUSE van was collectively funded by 315 people. They ...
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Hummingbirds: Bubbles Wrapped in Feathers
Unknown YetTheir appearance has been described as "glittering fragments of rainbows, flamingo comets, and living gems," but ...
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Therapy Dogs Help Kids with Trauma Tell Their Stories
Unknown YetCompanions for Courage in Orlando, Florida, is a community outreach program that provides therapy dogs for children ...
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One Teacher's Brilliant Response to Columbine
Unknown Yet"A few weeks ago, I went into my son Chase's class for tutoring. I'd e-mailed Chase's teacher one evening and said, ...
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Kinship Is a Verb
Unknown Yet"In thinking about kinship, I think its important to begin with, What are the boundaries of our kin? We can go way ...
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The Irrepressible Matriarchs of the North
Unknown YetSharon Blackie's latest book, "Hagitude: Reimagining the Second Half of Life," braids together myth, psychology and ...
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The Gift of Threshold Moments
Unknown YetLike moments of joy, awe, or bliss, threshold moments are experiences to notice, appreciate, and treasure ". . . ...
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On Language and Landscape
Unknown Yet"Light does not use syntax. Robins do not speak in syllables as we would recognize them. And so, language is always ...
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The Politics of the Brokenhearted
Unknown YetIn this interview, Michael Lerner talks with Dr. Parker Palmer about education, community, leadership, spirituality ...
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Alison Benis White: Light on the Page
Unknown Yet"Chaos--confusion, bewilderment--these are things I'm always working against and within as a writer. Frost famously ...
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Deciphering Words in the Woods
Unknown Yet"Ogham is Ireland's earliest form of writing. Dating from the fourth century, it is often affectionately called a ...
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Kindness as an Avenue to Awe
Unknown YetWhile many schools are emphasizing the importance of test scores and textbooks, Puget Sound Community School is ...
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Call to Prayer
Unknown Yet"Prayer can be anything your heart yearns for." As crowded spaces have become empty and many of us around the world ...
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A Call to Caring
Unknown Yet"At the heart of caring is an 'and' not an 'or'. Deep within us lies a potential that transcends our artificial ...
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