Feb 03 2025 51 mins 5
Now more than ever you probably need a good laugh, and perhaps a reason to be hopeful. So we’ll do both, with a good dose of science for good measure.
We’ll head to Hadley where a comedy dream has come to life over the past 10 years and is getting a chance to grow even bigger. Happier Valley Comedy may have started on a personal dare, but it’s become a life philosophy that improv can help in just about every aspect of human interaction, and we chat with Pam Victor and Scott Braidman about crafting community around and with the chaos as the organization enters it's second decade.
There’s a new audio documentary exploring the lives of lifelong activists and idealists Wally and Juanita Nelson through the words of the people themselves and those they met along the way, and we’ll speak with one of the producers of the work, Carrie Nobel Kline about the radical inclusion of the Nelsons and get you ready to hear the whole piece in person later this week at their community listening sessions for Eyes on Freedom: Evolving Gifts of Simple, Nonviolent Living.
And Mr. Universe, Kainaat Studios and Hampshire College’s Salman Hameed, shows us how life may be finding more ways in space as the Osiris Rex mission returns with fascinating discoveries about amino acids on the asteroid Bennu.
