On Our Mind: Producer Picks

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Museum Me

It's International Museum Day. But wait, there is a way for the museum to come to you, all in a package that 2,500 works of art, took ten years to make, weighs 20 pounds and is big enough to replace your coffee table.
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Trekkie

Simon Pegg is Chief Engineer Scotty in the new Star Trek movie. Here's our conversation with Simon about his lifelong love of sci fi movies, and growing up as a nerd.

Make, Makers, Making

Sara's hard at work on a show for this weekend, all about what we make and why it matters. Here's her note on the show...
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Food & Family

May 15 is International Day of the Family, and since family and food often go hand-in-hand, here's Patricia Volk's story of growing up in a restaurant family.

Thank you, Angelina

Anne here... How I admire Angelina Jolie, for having the courage to undergo a preventative double mastectomy, and for making her decision public. A woman's beauty is about so much more than her breasts -- it's about her strength, courage and power. Her OpEd piece today reminded me of these two conversations...
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Punk

New York's Metropolitan Museum just opened a new exhibition on punk fashion. Here's our interview with one of their featured artists, Patti Smith.
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Existential

This week would have seen Kierkegaard’s 200th birthday. Unsurprisingly, we don’t have an interview about Kierkegaard himself, but since we're in an existential state of mind, here's Nathan Radke on Sartre and Charlie Brown.

Doug on the Internet

Doug's peeking behind the webbed veil of the Internet this week. With the help of Rushkoff, Lanier, Coleman and others. Here's his note on "Internet Digital Culture..."

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