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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

There are lots of ways to amplify our senses, from hallucinogens to cochlear implants. A few people are taking it further, creating original sensory experiences by implanting new technologies in their bodies.

Artist Neil Harbisson is greyscale color blind. He designed a new electronic body part that would help him experience color.

If you want to hear about the art Neil makes thanks to his new sense, here's his extended interview.

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Charles R. Cross on the Young Fresh Fellows album “The Fabulous Sounds of the Pacific Northwest.”

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One future that most of face is seeing someone in the mirror we don’t quite recognize. Here’s Donna McNeil’s story about facing aging.

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Blogger Mark Manson on embracing our negativity as a means of consciously choosing what we really care about.

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Why has America stopped inventing? Americans invent less than half of what we did a century ago. Half.  Why? Are we less creative then we were 100 years ago?

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Robin Chase is the co-founder of ZipCar. Her Dangerous Idea? A universal basic income.

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Novelist Arthur Phillips is the author of "The Tragedy of Arthur." The book tells the story of a fictional character, also named Arthur Phillips, whose family finds a lost Shakespeare play.

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Chandler Burr's new book explains Luca Turin’s theory of how we smell and recounts his amazing ability to recognize the odor of particular molecules.

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