Tony Faber says violins have to age for fifty years to sound their best.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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A typical commute turns interesting in David Tigner's story about autonomous cars.
Hold on. What is wonder?
Social psychologist Jonathan Haidt found that there's not much research on awe. And when he took on the task, he discovered that they're not easy emotions to study.
Novelist Michelle Wildgen shares a conversation about food, art, and the creative imagination with chef and food activist Alice Waters, founder of the legendary Berkeley restaurant Chez Panisse.
The Canadian surrealist sketch comedy trio, The Vestibules, with their brilliant commercial parody, "Laurence Olivier for Diet Coke."
Poltergeists, ghosts, telepathy and other psychic phenomena used to be considered legitimate subjects for scientific research. Historian Jeffrey Kripal recounts the intellectual history of the paranormal.
Doug Gordon found Steve Nieve in Chicago and talked with him about his music and his collection of sounds.
Samuel Clemens was an energetic and passionate man who traveled the world and created a new American idiom.
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