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Imagine a portable listening device you wear like a walkman that converts the sounds around you into a form of music. Noah Vawter developed one.

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Ralph Knowles is one of the godfathers of the modern "green" design movement.  His ninth book on the subject is "Ritual House: Drawing on Nature's Rhythms."

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If you're worried about zombies every time you step outside, Max Brooks is your man.

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In this final segment, we take a left turn to punk.

Richard Hell co-founded the band Television in the mid-70s. He also created a look and sound that would eventually be called “punk.” 

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Can you actually see creativity in the brain? It turns out you can if you put a living, breathing human being inside a brain scan. IN this EXTENDED interview, neuroscientist Rex Jung describes his innovative research on the science of creativity.

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Richard Sennett makes the case that our definition of craft should be expanded to include any job a person commits to executing to the best of their abilities.

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Public Radio veteran producer Jay Allison has a new venture - a website called Transom. He prepared this sound portrait on artists and rejection.

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Marita Golden tells Jim Fleming about the pernicious influence of “colorism” within the Black community.

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