When I look at a tree I always wonder about the stories it holds – the good times, the bad times, the secrets and the kisses shared under it’s branches.  How do you find out more about a tree? Maybe the secrets will remain untold, but we can find out parts of the story of [...]

According to the bio on her website, Tania Ketenjian is a journalist, documentarian and sound artist – but she is also a connector, an observer, a collector of stories, and so much more. She is editor in chief of The [Un]Observed, a radio magazine of “candid conversations and explorations, works in sound and produced pieces [...]

I recently heard an episode on Radiolab about memory and forgetting that I loved. The episode replaces outdated metaphors for memory (file cabinet, hard drive) with an updated understanding of memory formation as a creative process through which some elements are sharpened, others leveled, and some lost. Quote: “The act of remembering – on a [...]

Thinking about our relationship to words (written and spoken), the ways they function inside and outside of our minds, and how they connect us to each other. Listen to this.

Lucy Temerlin was a chimpanzee raised as a human child by psychotherapist and professor Maurice Temerlin and his wife, Jane. Lucy had a kitty, drank gin, and communicated with sign language. She was released to a chimpanzee rehabilitation center in Gambia at the age of 12. For years, Lucy was unable to relate to the other chimps in the rehabilitation [...]