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With Good Reason | Science

Put the Phone Down

Whether you’re on foot crossing the street, or behind the wheel — there are a lot of new technologies to be distracted by. Bryan Porter says that we do not recover from looking at our phones as quickly as we think. Is your brain on the road when you are?

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With Good Reason | History

Legacies of World War II

When you think of archeology what comes to mind? Maybe paper maps and pickaxes in dusty places? Instead, imagine precise instruments delicately probing what’s below the surface to prevent destruction to sacred spaces. Richard Freund uses this less invasive archeology to help tell the stories of Jewish resistance in WWII.

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Yara Corderiro and Ruthie Lezama

Capoeira Starting in the 1500s, Brazilian plantation owners trafficked in enslaved Africans for free labor. In this brutal system, enslaved people worked to death on plantations that benefited of the …

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Yara Corderiro – Folklife Fieldnotes Episode 4

For the latest episode of the Folklife Fieldnotes series, Pat Jarret went to a batizado, where Abada-Capoeira DC were honoring their students’ achievements and ranking in capoeira.

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With Good Reason | Science

Medicine’s Messiness

The patient-doctor relationship is complicated and fraught.

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VA Festival of the Book | Books & Literature

SHELF LIFE—EcoPoetics: Poetry and the Natural World

Poets Kathy Davis (Passiflora), Danielle Beazer Dubrasky (Drift Migration), and Cathryn Hankla (Not Xanadu) read from and discuss their recent collections. All three hold ties with Virginia and depict its …

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Q&A with Shelf Life author Cathryn Hankla

Cathryn Hankla, author of Not Xanadu, is a writer, artist, and professor emerita at Hollins University. Author of fifteen books, her work spans genre to include stories, essays, poetry, and …

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VA Festival of the Book | Books & Literature

Q&A with Shelf Life author Danielle Beazer Dubrasky

Danielle Beazer Dubrasky, author of Drift Migration, is a writer and professor. Her work focuses on the natural world, and has appeared in many publications such as Pilgrimage and the …

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VA Festival of the Book | Books & Literature

Q&A with Shelf Life author Kathy Davis

Kathy Davis, author of Passiflora, is a writer of poetry and nonfiction. Her work has appeared in many publications such as The Southern Review and Guernica. Get to know Kathy …

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Encyclopedia VA

The Great Dismal Swamp: A Mythical Place of Enslaved Resistance and Rebellion

The Great Dismal Swamp straddles many lines—the border between Virginia and North Carolina, the boundary between land and water, and the space between past and present. It exists today as one of the most ecologically sensitive and important areas on the East Coast, a natural carbon sink that plays a critical role in carbon sequestration, […]

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Music as Escape

Take a ride to Danville with producer Matt Darroch.

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VA Festival of the Book | Books & Literature

SHELF LIFE—Rediscovering Earth: A Conversation with William deBuys and Bill McKibben

William deBuys (The Trail to Kanjiroba) discusses his latest book in conversation with Bill McKibben. In The Trail to Kanjiroba deBuys brings attributes of memoir and travel and nature writing …

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VA Festival of the Book | Books & Literature

Q&A with Shelf Life author William deBuys

William deBuys, author of The Trail to Kanjiroba: Rediscovering Earth in an Age of Loss, is a conservationist and writer whose books focalize natural environments ranging from the Sangre de …

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Attack of the Zombie Crabs

Are you ready?

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