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Tune in every week to catch interviews with the liveliest voices from literature, the arts, sciences, history, and public affairs; reports on cutting-edge works in progress; long-form narratives; and compelling excerpts from new books. A podcast from The American Scholar magazine. Hosted by Stephanie Bastek.

Caitlin Doughty is the death professional behind the Internet’s favorite show about death, Ask a Mortician, and founder of the Order of the Good Death, which works to overcome our culture’s anxiety about dying, grief, and the afterlife. She runs her own funeral home, Undertaking LA, which offers alternatives to traditional, formaldehyde-soaked approaches to burial. In her book From Here to Eternity, she travels the world in search of the good death, from Mexico and North Carolina to Japan and Bolivia, learning about the ways in which other cultures have approached the end of life. We originally spoke to her in 2017, digging in to the subjects of corpse interaction, alternatives to the casket, and what death means to her.

Go beyond the episode:

– Caitlin Doughty’s From Here to Eternity
– Check out Landis Blair’s illustrations for the book on our episode page
– Ask a Mortician all about coffin birth, ghost marriage, and the iconic corpses of the world on Caitlin’s YouTube channel
– Read more about the Order of the Good Death, an organization of funeral professionals working to change attitudes about death
– Virtually visit the high-tech Ruriden Columbarium in Tokyo, Japan with head monk Yajima Taijun

Tune in every week to catch interviews with the liveliest voices from literature, the arts, sciences, history, and public affairs; reports on cutting-edge works in progress; long-form narratives; and compelling excerpts from new books. Hosted by Stephanie Bastek.

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Categories: Arts, Society & Culture

Tags: affairs, Arts, Culture, interviews, Literature, Politics, public, science, writing

The Kojo Nnamdi Show’s Tech Tuesday explores of how technology is changing our lives.

As of 2016, Tech Tuesday is no longer produced. For an archive of shows dating back to 1999, visit http://thekojonnamdishow.org/topic/tech-tuesday.

Categories: Technology

Tags: computer, guys, Kojo, national, Nnamdi, npr, public, radio, show, tech, Technology, tuesday, WAMU

The latest articles from Women Box

Categories: Society & Culture

Tags: box, Boxing, ceiling, glass, national, new, OLYMPICS, public, radio, wnyc, woman, women, york

A company’s Board of Directors or Advisors often has a pivotal role in the success or failure of a business, whether a company or organization lives or dies – – and whether the people who have invested time, money and emotional capital will succeed. On Boards Podcast: A Deep Dive at Driving Business Success, is about everything related to Boards of Directors and Boards of Advisors. Twice a month, in 30 minutes, hear and learn about all aspects of boards and business governance. 
In each episode co-hosts Raza Shaikh and Joe Ayoub interview a guest who has experience with boards – as a board member, a CEO, an investor or an advisor, among other roles, for a conversation on a wide range of topics including: What makes great boards great? What makes a board unsuccessful? How to be a good board member? How to make your board one of the most valuable assets of your company. They discuss public, private, non-profit and start-ups (which they believe is its own category) boards – the work they do, the impact they have and their potential to be profoundly impactful on the organization they serve. On Boards Podcast is for anyone who is a board member, would like serve on a board, is an owner of a business, a member of a non-profit organization, an investor in a business or is interested in Board of Directors or Boards of Advisors or business governance.

Categories: Business

Tags: Advisor, board, business, company, cooperation, director, fiduciary, Governance, Oversight, Private, public

New for 2016! This audio-only podcast from BillMoyers.com offers compelling and vital conversation about life and the state of American democracy, featuring some of the best thinkers of our time. A range of scholars, artists, activists, scientists, philosophers and newsmakers bring context, insight and meaning to important topics, like the 2016 Election. Subscribe to the podcast for an audio version of this Web-only series.

Categories: Uncategorised

Tags: 2016, affairs, BILL, democracy, election, Journal, Moyers, PBS, Politics, public

Conner and Ned take their live show Effin’ Rager to the airwaves with FM Rager. They speak with comedians, musicians, and artists about partying and how it has helped connect us to other performers! Catch us live on KPFT HD2 every Monday at 8pm!

Categories: Arts, Comedy, Society & Culture

Tags: call, Comedy, ins, party, partying, public, radio, show, talk

Pulling Back the Curtain… In This Episode: I pull back the curtain on the the plea of Not Guilty By Reason of Insanity. How does it differ from Diminished Capacity and Competency to Stand Trial? Contrary to what the media often portrays, the insanity defense is pled … Continue reading →

Categories: Business, Education, Society & Culture

Tags: constitution, Crime, crimes, criminals, defendant, defender, jury, law, legal, prosecution, prosecutors, public

Go beyond the headlines and economic jargon for a look at what’s happening in the business world and in the workplace – and why it matters in your life.

Categories: Education, News, Society & Culture

Tags: business, charlie, Foroohar, HermanJoe, Money, new, Nocera, npr, public, radio, Rana, talking, wnyc, york

All elk, all the time, and only elk. Hunting elk is the aspirational pinnacle for most American hunters. Corey Jacobsen, 10-time World Elk Calling Champion, and Randy Newberg, long-time public land hunting advocate, have combined to lower the hurdles for aspiring elk hunters and provide insight from their combined decades of elk hunting mistakes that will give useful information to elk hunters of all experience levels. Brought to you by Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation and partners Sitka Gear, GOHUNT, MTN OPS, and OutdoorClass.

Categories: Education, Science, Sports

Tags: 101, Adventure, advice, corey, elk, explore, hiking, howto, hunt, Hunting, jacobsen, land, newberg, outdoors, public, randy, strategy, talk

Alief ISD speaks with guests from all walks of life about issues affecting education and the future of America.

Categories: Education, Government, Kids & Family

Tags: America, community, edchat, edleader, edtalk, edu, Education, future, government, houston, parent, Politics, principal, public, publiced, publiceducation, roundtable, student, Superintendent, teacher, Texas

Like late-night for radio, hosted by Luke Burbank (Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me), the show artfully blends an eclectic mix of artists, musicians, writers, filmmakers, comedians and cultural observers. Music, comedy, and conversation, live and packed with surprises.

Categories: Arts

Tags: Burbank, Comedy, live, livewire, luke, public, radio, tbtl, variety, wire