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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Daniel Goldmark talks with Jim Fleming about the use of music in animation.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

David Hughes is the author of “The Complete Lynch,” a comprehensive study of film-maker David Lynch’s work.  Hughes talks about meeting Lynch in Prague, and they talk about Lynch’s use of sound.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Flash mobs: seemingly random gatherings of complete strangers doing something completely out of the ordinary. Bill Wasik started this craze.

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Carl Honore talks with Anne Strainchamps about how the Slowness movement got started and how it's developed into a revolution.

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Brian Raftery tells Jim Fleming about karaoke in Japan and the man who invented it.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

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.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

LaNiyah Bailey didn't like being bullied in school.  When she was 6 years old she decided to do something about it.  She wrote a book.

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Davy Rothbart is the founder and editor of “Found” Magazine. He reads some samples of the notes and lists he’s found and talks about them with Jim Fleming

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