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Airs Saturdays, July 5-26, 2014 at 10 p.m. on KPBS TV

It's been a long and winding road for the '57 Chevy station wagon at the heart of Earl Swift's new book Auto Biography. Swift traces the car through 13 owners and a dramatic restoration attempt.

Photographer Lucas Foglia spent seven years jumping from town to town, from New Mexico to Montana. He creates a collage of life and landscape in his new book, Frontcountry.

If you think that an artificial eye looks like a big glass marble, you're not alone. And you're wrong. We visit the people who made a prosthetic eye for a 5-year-old boy who lost an eye to cancer.

The process of becoming a man isn't always an easy one, but poet Saeed Jones says that reading Real Man Adventures by T Cooper, can make the journey more joyful.

People sometimes take prescription drugs to keep from getting sick at high altitudes. But medical researchers wondered whether ibuprofen, the painkilling mainstay, would be an effective over-the-counter alternative. The results look promising.

Saturday, June 21, 2014 at 2:30 p.m. on KPBS TV

A Look At One Man's Obsession

Saturday, June 21, 2014 at 1:30 p.m. on KPBS TV.

Emergency aid workers are rushing this week to get food aid to the victims of Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines -- just the latest reminder of how vulnerable the food supply can be when disaster hits.