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A story of defiance and determination by a controversial scientist, this is Lee Berger's own take on finding Homo naledi, an all-new species on the human family tree and one of the greatest discoveries of the 21st century. In 2013, Lee Berger, a National Geographic explorer-in-residence, heard of a cache of bones in a hard-to-reach underground cave in South Africa. He put out a call around the world for petite collaborators - men and women small and adventurous enough to be able to squeeze through eight-inch tunnels to reach a sunless cave forty feet underground. It worked.

In the summer of 2022, Lee Berger lost 50 pounds in order to wriggle though impossibly small openings in the Rising Star cave complex in South Africa—spaces where his team has been unearthing the remains of Homo naledi, a proto-human likely to have coexisted with Homo sapiens some 250,000 years ago. Lead researcher Berger had never made his way into the dark, cramped, dangerous underground spaces where many of the naledi fossils had been found. Now he was ready to do so. Once inside the cave, Berger made shocking new discoveries that expand our understanding of this early hominid.

Compelling and intimate, this collection of never-before-seen letters between the celebrated art critic and essayist, John Berger and his son Yves, an artist, is a moving look at their musings on art, memory, life, death, and beyond. Written between 2015-16, with color images of well-known old...

Mike Berger and John Artiglier talk about media they've been watching, playing, and interacting with while trying not to be awkward. It's a podcast idea so original, you would have thought someone would have done it by now.

A podcast where two amateur history buffs electrocute each other about bad ass stories from history. We quiz each other on the episode’s topic and for every wrong answer, we get an increasingly high-voltage electric shock.It's Hot Ones...For Nerds.​It's History...for people who are history-curious and just need a jackhole getting electrocuted to seal the deal.It's GET SHOCKED.Connect with GET SHOCKED.Created, Written and Co-hosted by Daniel Berger-Jones and John J King.Produced and Edited by Kenneth Fuentes.