Charles R. Cross talks about Kurt Cobain's influence on hip-hop.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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First it was the Islamic State of Iraq, ISIS. Then the Levant Islamic State of Iraq, ISIL. And now IS – a self-described Islamic State. But what about the youth of the Arab World? What do they want?
If there is one song more than any other that shimmers with political and emotional resonance, it’s “We Shall Overcome.”
Self-described former jihadist Mubin Shaikh recounts his journey into, and out of, extremism.
For the Aboriginal people of Australia, the concept of "The Dreaming" means an existence with no linear time.
Imagine mixing and matching your senses. People with a neurological condition called synesthesia can see music or hear colors. A few decades ago, scientists thought it was a myth, but neuroscientist David Eagleman says artists and synesthesia go way back.
Thomas Campanella tells Jim Fleming the Elm tree once spread its arching branches over trees from one end of the country to the other, but in the end it was loved to death.
William Gibson talks about coining the word "cyberspace" to use in his fiction.
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