Back in 1973, country music legend Johnny Cash gave his daughter Roseanne a list of 100 songs he considered essential. Now, music critic Michael Streissguth takes us behind the scenes.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Peter Manseau and Jeff Sharlet are the authors of “Killing the Buddha - A Heretic’s Bible” and run an on-line magazine called Killing the Buddha Dot Com.
Who was the real Henry David Thoreau? He wasn't exaclty an environmentalist, and "Walden" didn't simply describe his time living by the pond. Jeffrey Cramer looks at the man behind the myth.
Maryam Eskandari is a mosque architect and founder of MIIM Designs. She say most non-Muslims think designing a mosque is full of rules. But it’s not. She told Charles Monroe-Kane that the only rule is you have to point out the direction to Mecca. This is called the marabji.
You know poems can be different things to different people: solace, a call to action, beauty. A reflection on war. But to Rae Armantrout there’s one thing that all poetry should be - read out loud.
Many of the biggest ideas in science today were dreamed up in the studios of NY's avant garde artists. So says John Brockman. He was there. Today, he brings the same wide-ranging intellectual spirit to his online science salon, Edge.org.
Want to hear more of Domenico Vicinanza's music from Voyager 1 and 2? Here it is.
Do you need an advanced degree in math or physics to make discoveries about the cosmos? Science writer Margaret Wertheim says thousands of amateur scientists have proposed their own theories about the universe.
Shortly after the U.S. Invaded Iraq in 2003, Lawrence Anthony traveled on his own to Baghdad to do what he could to save the animals in the Baghdad Zoo.
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