Sixty years after those Avant Garde composers of the 1920s, some Japanese musicians followed in their footsteps, exploring the outer reaches of sound with “noise music.”
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Would you like to sharpen your memory? Science writer Joshua Foer tells you how to build an elaborate memory palace.
Len Fisher talks with Anne Strainchamps about "swarm intelligence" and how it differs from "group think."
What's it like to hang out with the U.S. president? Journalist Michael Lewis found out when he shadowed Barack Obama for 8 months, even playing in one of Obama's pick-up basketball games.
Elizabeth Hellmuth Margulis talks about "On Repeat: How Music Plays the Mind."
John Landis talks about his new book, "Monsters in the Movies: 100 Years of Cinematic Nightmares."
Mike Tidwell is a freelance journalist who thinks he’s found the biggest environmental catastrophe in America. In this pre-Katrina interview, Tidwell talks about the time he spent with shrimpers in the bayou country and what they taught him about the devastating price we’re paying for the way we control floods on the Mississippi River.
NY Times film critic Manohla Dargis selects her favorite film of the year: Richard Linklater's "Boyhood," filmed over the course of 12 years.
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