Senegalese pop star Youssou N'Dour is the top-selling African musician of all time.
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Given the history of the fraught relationship between the Catholic church and the sciences, you might be surprised to learn that the Vatican has an in-house astronomer. Listen in as he tells Jim Fleming about being a scientist in robes.
What is water? When Anne Strainchamps asked Wisconsin's Poet Laureate, Kimberly Blaeser called up the story and myth of the Anishinaabe. Blaeser says growing up on the White Earth Reservation, surrounded by lakes, made her who she is today.
Some of us think of dance as something best left to the professionals, people with years of training and technique. But when Sally Gross started dancing, she realized that she'd never master ballet or modern dance. So she made a whole new kind of dance...
Steve Paulson reports on the controversy and continuing influence of Vladimir Nabokov’s scandalous novel “Lolita.”
Scientists are on the cusp of developing new technologies that could radically change how we’re born and how we die. But just because we can do it, should we? For lots of people, it’s just plain wrong for humans to play God.
But Oxford University bioethicist Julian Savulescu has a different view. He says we have a moral obligation to use new technology to create the best possible children.
Tia Fuller's life is steeped in jazz. She's a saxophone player who composes, teaches, and has several albums under her belt. If that's not enough, she also spent five years touring the world with Beyonce's all-woman R & B band. Her new album is called "Angelic Warrior."
The recent "Blurred Lines" copyright decision has again raised questions about the limits of copyright law, and the disinction between inspiration and imitation. UCLA law professor Kal Raustiala believes the verdict sets a risky precedent for artists and misunderstands the way the creative process works.
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