Doug Gordon found Steve Nieve in Chicago and talked with him about his music and his collection of sounds.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Samuel Clemens was an energetic and passionate man who traveled the world and created a new American idiom.
Exploding urbanism might be the biggest global innovation challenge, Chris Anderson says.
Tom Wolfe reads the opening to "The Postman Always Rings Twice" and explains why it's his favorite.
Jules Pretty spent a year circumnavigating England's southeastern coast on foot. He discovered tidal paths, secret roads, and beaches covered in tiny fragments of 18th century human bones.
Physicist Ronald Mallet tells Anne Strainchamps why he thinks he can use light to bend the fabric of space and achieve time travel.
When Samuel Clemens took on the pen name “Mark Twain,” he was doing more cleverly appropriating a measure of depth. He was also tapping into one of the most well-known sounds along the river: sounding calls. Owen Selles tells about these calls in this piece, adapted from an essay he originally wrote for the online magazine Edge Effects.
Sherry Turkle discusses the ways in which we are already developing relationships with personal robotic devices from cellphones and iPods to toys like the Furby and My Real Baby.
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