Each weekday morning for the last month-and-a-half, I’ve been driving through the dark streets of Madison at 5:15am on my way to my morning fitness boot camp. There are many, many reasons that I’ve loved going to boot camp, but one of them is the time in the car listening to NPR. My kids, you see, are not fans of NPR. They do not like to have their ears assaulted with the sound of news or people who are not singing kids songs. So on a normal basis, I do not get to listen to NPR, which, my friends, makes me a little sad.
However, at 5:15am, I am the only one in the car, and I get to listen to my station for 15 minutes each way. That’s 30 minutes!!! Oh the rapture:)
Sometimes, I even feel like I kinda know what’s going on in the world these days.
One of my favorite segments is a special series called “The Human Edge.” Each day they explore a different aspect of human evolution that gave us an evolutionary edge and allowed us to be as a species as dominant and “successful” as we have become. Shows have discussed our hands (allows us to hold and make tools), our feet (allows us to stand upright, live on the ground, run), cooking our food, crying, and telling stories. Each segment is about 10 minutes long, and I’ve found each one to be really interesting.
You can read more (and listen online at) NPR.org or subscribe to the podcast on iTunes.
I like this! I feel like this also! What a positive way to say the manifesto. Thanks for sharing.
Interesting. I thought I was commenting on the human manifesto…I hadn’t even seen this post. Anyway, this sounds like a cool show. I’ll have to check it out!