What if the geometric structure of the universe has been hidden, for centuries, in crochet? Margaret Wertheim can help you get there with a ball of wool, a crochet hook, and some non-Euclidean geometry.
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Frank Wilczek is a Nobel Prize-winning physicist at MIT. He's kind of obsessed, in his own way, with understanding the universe. Specifically, he’s interested in what he calls “the beautiful question." Is the universe naturally, inherently beautiful?
Kazuo Ishiguro just won the Nobel prize. Here's the best stuff he's said to us.
Teachers Curtis Acosta and Jose Gonzalez explain the origins of Tucson's Mexican-American Studies program—and how their personal histories in school led them to teach these courses.
When you talk about people's personalities, he says, there's not many things more interesting than what they really want and can't get.
NPR music critic Ann Powers reflects on how Americans have used music to talk around their awkward feelings related to sex and race.
Doug Rushkoff believes personal technology is having an insidious effect on our relationship with time. He calls it “present shock.”
Alexander Weinstein’s “Children of the New World” is a collection of cautionary tales about extreme emotional attachment to software and silicon.
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