A Man’s Life for a Bird
This is a story about birds. But it’s really a story about moral balance. How far should we go to protect a species? Is one species worth more than another? I journey to the forests of…
Short audio stories about science, animals and the odd corners of being human — swarms and warblers, musical hallucinations, a bus stop that goes nowhere.
This is a story about birds. But it’s really a story about moral balance. How far should we go to protect a species? Is one species worth more than another? I journey to the forests of…
Something happened to my dog Charlie. I won’t tell you what here, but it’s troubled me for nearly a decade. So I wrote this audio essay about it. I will tell you it’s about wildness. And…
Let’s get mathy. When we show up into the world do we come pre-wired with an understanding of numbers? Research shows that we do (within 24 hours babies can identify changes in quantity),…
If you could shut down that little voice in your head that tells you you’re tired, how far could you go? What, if any, are the limits to the human body? There’s a race called RAAM (Race…
There’s a feeling you get when you encounter a swarm. It’s a thrill, with a dash of fear and a sprinkle of awe. Entomologist Jeffrey Lockwood calls this feeling “The Joyful Terror of…
There is a condition, a nightmarish condition, in which songs get stuck in your head, and play over and over again in loud, fully-realized, renditions. Research suggests that people who…
Here are some pieces I did with Sam Dingman for his good-times low-fi radio podcast, The Road 2 Shambala . Basically, Sam and I would shoot the breeze, and then put some music under our…
A story of love and faceblindness. This piece is the second in a show of eight meditations on “Falling.” It won Runner-up in a national audio competition.
A story about a magical-seeming town in Belgium called Geel where people have been caring for strangers with mental illness for over 700 years. It is also a story about mental illness in my…
A story about a man who is blind who can ride a bike using echolocation–clicking like a bat. But it is really a story about so much more, about how your expectations may be affecting the…
A nursing home in Düsseldorf, Germany has come up with a stunningly simple solution to the problem of Alzheimer’s and Dementia patients getting disoriented and wandering away. It’s a…
Vermont’s got a tourism problem. It’s got the least number of twenty-somethings (25 – 30 age group) of any state in the country. And though they do get a spike of snowboarders and skiers in…
A short conversation I had with Jad and Robert on the show about why certain stories give me all the hope in the world. I’m currently working on an essay about this. To comment or download,…