Hans Ulrich Obrist's dangerous idea is to create a museum for projects that haven't been completed—he calls it "A Palace of Unbuilt Roads."
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Doris Kearns Goodwin talks with Jim Fleming about her best-selling biography, "Team of Rivals."
Billy Collins has stepped down as America’s Poet Laureate, but he hasn’t stopped trying to make poetry more accessible and more widely read.
Faith Adiele flunked out of Harvard and went to Thailand to study languages. There, she became the first ordained Black Buddhist Nun.
Christa Weil talks about eating national dishes like putrefied shark meat and her curious experience eating blow fish in Japan.
Alba is a real rabbit, created in a lab and genetically modified to glow in the dark. Eduardo Kac talks about the moral and ethical implications of art using living subjects.
Daniel Kammen, director of the Renewable and Appropriate Energy Lab at the University of California/Berkeley tells Anne Strainchamps about some wild energy alternatives that actually work.
Clayton Eshleman is a poet who’s turned his poetic sensibility loose on the paleolithic cave drawings at Lascaux in France. He talks about these drawings represent shamanic spirit journeys and rituals.
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