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Airs Wednesday, April 17, 2019 at 8 p.m. on KPBS TV + Sunday, April 21 at 8 p.m. on KPBS 2

Army Command Sgt. Maj. Wardell Turner, 48, was roughly a year away from retirement when he lost his life Monday in a bomb blast in Afghanistan. Turner is survived by his mother, siblings, wife, five children, and three grandchildren.

New Orleans lost much since Hurricane Katrina, and the failed levees that flooded the city. But Gwen Thompkins says the passions that survived the flood kept her city alive too.

The multibillion-dollar pinball industry is dominated by Korean Japanese, an immigrant community that has been ill-treated for generations. Author Min Jin Lee explores that history in a new novel.

British writer Diana Athill is 98 — by her own account, a very old woman. In this slim but lovely volume, she recounts the moments that have lingered: heartbreak, yes, but also hills of bluebells.

Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is reasserting his control following a failed military coup with widespread purges of the country's institutions.

It causes melioidosis, whose yearly death toll of 90,000 is about the same as for measles. But the disease hasn't been on the global health radar — until now.

It looked at winners of the Darwin Awards, given to people who die in such an idiotic manner their action ensures the species' long-term survival. Nearly 90 percent of the winners were male.

Learn about corpse medicine, skull moss, and the custom of the sea

Airs Sundays, April 2 - May 21, 2017 at 8 p.m. on KPBS TV