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It’s 2055, a regular weekday morning… Where do you wake up? With a booming population and more people moving into urban areas, chances are you’d be living in a city. But what might that city look like?
Mitchell Joaquim is an architect, and one of the founders of the innovative design group, TerreForm1.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Canadian filmmaker Guy Maddin straddles avant-garde and mainstream film, and he’s obsessed with the lost masterpieces from cinema’s history. In this extended interview, Maddin tells Steve Paulson he’s haunted by the ghosts of early cinema.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Maybe the silver lining to any break-up is the soundtrack. You get the sad songs and the sorry songs. When you're tired of tears on your pillow and ready to revive, there are the angry break-up songs.

In this EXTENDED interview with producer Sara Nics, Jason Saldanha and Robin Linn of WBEZ's Sound Opinions talk blame, revenge and moving on.

WARNING: In this extended version, there is profanity in some of the lyrics.

Want to see the full list of suggested break-up song? Here it is.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Charles Taylor was convicted of mass murder, rape, and sexual slavery, among other crimes this week by the ICC. One of his top warlords, infamous for using child soldiers, is seeking redemption. Listen to this NEW and UNCUT interview about General Butt Naked.

 

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

An algorithm might not be able to spit out a chart-topping song —at least not yet—but it might be able to help you write a best-selling novel.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Jim Fleming and his wife spent a day in Paris being guided around the most fabulous chocolate shops by former Chez Panisse pastry chef, David Lebovitz.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Legal scholar Cass Sunstein believes humans are innately irrational.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Writer Elizabeth Royte spent some time on Panama’s Barro Colorado Island, the best-studied rainforest in the world.  She describes some of the naturalists she met and their work in her book “The Tapir’s Morning Bath.”

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