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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Sound engineer Ryan Schimmenti put it best, "every space has a sound, every sound tells a story." Using high-end equipment he documents and records the "voices" of buildings.

There are a lot of those sounds in this piece. But if you want more . . .

 

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Biologist Bill Streever is a cryophile – someone who loves the cold.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Brian Palmer has been a staff writer at Fortune magazine, Beijing bureau chief for US News and World Report and a correspondent for CNN. He tells Anne Strainchamps that none of that prepared him for Iraq where he was embedded with the First Battalion/Second Marines.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

For decades, urbanists have been thinking about cities as organisms. They take in resources, eject waste, spread and grow. Theoretical physicist Geoffrey West decided to put the idea through the mathematical ringer. So, are cities like organisms? Yes. And no.

You can also hear the uncut interview with West.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Diane Ravitch was a strong proponent of charter schools and the No Child Left Behind program. She now recognizes the political agenda behind all the recent school cuts and has changed her mind.

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Contemplating the multiverse is mind-blowing, but if you want a truly earth-shattering controversy in physics, you have to go back 500 years to Copernicus' radical theory.  Dava Sobel tells his story.

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Author of "Waiting for Snow in Havana" started to worry about death as a child, growing up in Cuba during an era of public executions ...

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Physicist Michio Kaku's Dangerous Idea? A virtual "library of souls."

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