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Podcast: Commonwealth Club of California Podcast
Episode: Bonnie Tsui, Paige Bethmann, and Ku Stevens: Muscle, The Stuff that Moves Us and Why It Matters
Description: Join us for an intriguing look at muscle power—and the surprising ways muscle can reveal what we’re capable of.
Bonnie Tsui, author of On Muscle, will be joined by filmmaker Paige Bethmann and the subject of Bethmann’s documentary, Ku Stevens. Her film, Remaining Native, tells the story of 17-year-old runner Stevens who made a 50-mile run through the Nevada desert to remember the route his great-grandfather took to escape from a boarding school.
Tsui will draw on a blend of science, culture, immersive reporting, and personal narrative to examine not just what muscle...