Lawrence Lessig is the creator of the Creative Commons and says that our current copyright law is far too restrictive and stifles creativity.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Maurice Sendak has written and narrates a story called "Pincus and the Pig: A Klezmer Tale." It's based on Prokofiev's "Peter and the Wolf".
John Haught believes these so called "new atheists" simply don't measure up to the old athiests like Nietzsche and Camus.
Jon Hein uses the term “jump-the-shark” to describe the precise moment when things begin to go bad.
Michael Kimmelman talks with Steve Paulson about making your life a work of art.
Black, white and Jewish: Rebecca Walker talks with Steve Paulson about her unconventional upbringing and how having a child of her own changed her feelings about it.
Is there a science of rap? Pioneering neuroscientist Charles Limb has put freestyle rappers inside brain-scanning machines, and he's seen an explosion of neural activity.
Joshua Clover explains the subtitle of his book, “1989: Bob Dylan Didn’t Have This To Sing About.”
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