Deborah Pardes is the founder of the SIBL Project. SIBL stands for Songs Inspired by Literature.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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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.
Claude Coleman was the drummer for cult rock group WEEN when he was involved in a car crash that left him with multiple broken bones, paralyzed on his left side, and brain- damaged.
Corby Kummer is the food writer for The Atlantic Monthly. He talks with Anne Strainchamps about Flur de Sel, a gourmet sea salt imported from France.
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.”
Carol Dweck is researcher at Stanford University. She says everybody fails, but not everybody fails the right way.
Daniel Libeskind is the architect whose design was chosen to the master-plan for the new World Trade Center site.
Philosopher Lars Svendsen's Dangerous Idea? We shouldn't fear being lazy.
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