Bonnie Swift

A “sleepcast” featuring underwater whale songs, soothing narration, and an adorable scene of a humpback whale rescuing a seal. By the time this whale is ready to close one eye and go to sleep, you will be too.

Tokitae

This 8-part series won an award for Best Coverage of Native America from the Indigenous Journalists Association.

People Find the Drum who Need to Find the Drum

John-Carlos Perea came to Stanford for ten weeks to teach pow-wow music.

Defenders of a New Idea

Before the National Parks Service existed, the US Army protected our National Parks.

Interview with Alexander Rose

We discuss Long Now’s 10,000 Year Clock, in which they are constructing a gigantic mechanical clock in the middle of a mountain.

Seeds, Rocks & Ink Blocks

In the early 1900s Stanford had a special fellowship dedicated to ‘psychical’ research.

They Proved It?

At the Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research Laboratories, or PEAR, decades of research and thousands of experiments may have demonstrated evidence for the existence of psychic phenomena.

The Guards at the Gates

After PEAR found statistically significant evidence of psychic phenomena, researchers generated a theory for how the mind could influence the physical world.

Vibration Isolation

A visit with Dean Radin at his headquarters at the Institute of Noetic Sciences.

At the Margins

Shakespeare wrote, “There are more things under heaven and earth, then are dreamt of in your philosophies.”

Stories for Love & Earth

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I am a writer and podcast producer based in Seattle.