James Hughes looks forward to the day when we figure out how to merge our human flesh with our computer technology.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Ian Caldwell and Dustin Thomason wrote a book about four brainy Princeton students and a 15th century manuscript written in code and it’s a runaway hit.
Jack Sullivan tells Anne Strainchamps about the partnership between Alfred Hitchcock and Bernard Hermann which resulted in some of the greatest film scores ever written.
Rev. Alex Gee grew up in the shadow of the UW campus in Madison, and today is one of the city's senior ministers. Yet like many African American men he's been the victim of racial profiling in his own hometown. Rev. Gee spoke to Charles Monroe Kane about the everyday realities of racism and classism, and how they lock people out of the Wisconsin Idea.
Leonard Bernstein’s daughter, Jamie Bernstein Thomas recalls what it was like growing up with her famous father.
Inocente is a 19 year old girl who grew up in San Diego. She loves art and is an accomplished painter. She’s also lived most of her life here as an undocumented immigrant from Mexico. She was the subject of the film that won the 2013 Oscar for best documentary short. It’s called Inocente.
What makes something funny? Deep in the Colorado mountains, researcher Peter McGraw run the Humor Research Lab (HuRL, for short).
He thought he'd found the formula for funny. Then he circled the globe to test his theory. Here's what he found...
Restricting yourself to eight or nine words can be far more complex than you would expect.
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