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Out of Eden Walk: Walking through western China

Out of Eden Walk

In China’s southern province of Yunnan, a community known as the Bai expresses itself mostly by singing. And they have a song for everything: from history lessons to mourning to flirting. Host Marco Werman speaks with National Geographic Explorer Paul Salopek, who also discusses the early 20th century Austrian-American botanist and explorer Joseph Rock, who traveled through this same region of western China.

A woman sits on a bed using her phone with another woman in the hallway doing the same

The lost art of listening

Science & Technology
A humpback whale surfacing from the water surrounded by seagulls

If you could talk to the animals

The World in Words
Communication

Alan Alda’s secret to better communication? Have a little more empathy.

Science
Dog giving "puppy eyes"

Do dogs understand what we’re saying to them?

Science
Yangon street scene

Leapfrogging with smartphones, Myanmar joins the world

Global Politics

Burma used to be one of the most isolated countries on earth, thanks to military rulers who didn’t want outside interference. Now known as Myanmar, it’s opening up. A new pro-democracy government was elected in November. And a dramatic surge in mobile phone and smartphone users is accelerating change.

The World

We tried saying this tongue twister — and we dare you to do better

Health & Medicine

Why is saying something like “The Sheik’s Sixth Sheep’s Sick” so darn hard to say? A psycho-linguist wants to know, so she can help people with speaking disorders.