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.
Rachel Fershleiser and Larry Smith tell Anne Strainchamps how they got started soliciting six-word memoirs, recite some of their favorites, and say that crafting them can become an addiction.
We present two takes on the question of whether or not the world's supply of oil is drying up. Princeton's Ken Deffeyes says production has peaked. Danish statistician Bjorn Lomborg says that's just crying wolf.
Mamak Khadem came to America from Iran to finish high school. She began to sing Persian music to stay connected to her homeland.
Joe Queenan is an American married to an Englishwoman, and the author of “Queenan Country: A Reluctant Anglophile’s Pilgrimage to the Mother Country.”
Mark Jacobson and his wife took their three children on a 90-day trip around the world. They've written a book called "12,000 Miles in the Nick of Time: A Semi-Dysfunctional Family Circumnavigates the Globe."
Singer/songwriter Lisa Germano played violin for rock artist John Mellencamp. Her own album, “Geek the Girl” contains a song, “The Psychopath,” based on her experiences with an obsessed fan.
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