Fashion designer Suzanne Lee makes jackets and skirts out of cloth she grows by fermenting liquid in a big vat. In the future, she believes we'll harness nature to grow all sorts of clothing and other products.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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What's the oddest - or most delicious - translation of traditional food that you've sampled?
LA Times food critic Jonathan Gold has spent his career seeking out the best plates of authentic – or reinterpreted – culture. Anne Strainchamps asked him about food in translation.
Listen to the UNCUT interview here. We recommend having some snacks on hand!
David Blight tells Jim Fleming that Americans on both sides played a role in whitewashing the history of the Civil War, in favor of a more unified nation.
Clark Taylor is the author of a children’s book called “The House That Crack Built.” He tells Steve Paulson that kids know all about drugs and can handle the truth.
Brian Turner was an average young American who volunteered for military service in Iraq. At night he wrote poetry by flashlight.
Dean Hamer tells Steve Paulson about the gene that regulates brain activity that we perceive as an affinity for spiritual matters.
Anthony Shadid won two Pulitzer Prizes for his coverage of the war in Iraq. He knows the violence of war. As he told Steve Paulson, he also knows, that when the war ends, unintended consequences follow.
Elegy for a Dead World is a new video game developed by Dejobaan Games, and it's based on some very old-school romantic poets: Shelley, Keats, and Byron. Game designer Ichiro Lambe described the inspiration and execution of a game where players write the story as the game unfolds.
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