Photographer Sarah Sudhoff has made art out of death.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Edward Larson tells Steve Paulson what makes the Islands unique, and why they inspired Charles Darwin to write “The Origin of Species."
"New Yorker" staff writer and book critic James Wood recommends Theodor Fontane's 1894 novel, "Effi Briest."
For as closely linked as the voice is to our body and sense of identity, there are also a lot of external forces affecting our voices, both social and technological. In fact, when we're talking about mediated voices—voices we hear in music, film, and of course, on the radio—we're actually not talking about "voices" any more. We're talking about signal processing. And, as media historian Jonathan Sterne tells Craig Eley, signal processing shapes the sound of all vocal media, from your telephone calls to the music of T-Pain.
Carl Honore talks with Anne Strainchamps about how the Slowness movement got started and how it's developed into a revolution.
Brian Raftery tells Jim Fleming about karaoke in Japan and the man who invented it.
Eric Schlosser says our marijuana laws have a lot to do with class and race prejudice.
His job for the New York Times is to troll the internet for new and noteworthy words. What do these words tell us about the times we live in?
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