Richard Hand describes several of the programs that made that period the Golden Age of radio.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Would you like to sharpen your memory? Science writer Joshua Foer tells you how to build an elaborate memory palace.
Elizabeth Hellmuth Margulis talks about "On Repeat: How Music Plays the Mind."
Mamak Khadem came to America from Iran to finish high school. She began to sing Persian music to stay connected to her homeland.
Lada Adamic is one of a host of data scientists working at facebook. Anne Strainchamps wanted to know what all those sociologists are up to.
Check out Facebook's social science website.
Philippe Petit is the author of “To Reach the Clouds: My High Wire Walk between the Twin Towers.”
Jason Spingarn-Koff is a film-maker whose new documentary is called "Life 2.0." It tells the stories of several people who immerse themselves in the "Second Life" computer game...
Mark Jacobson and his wife took their three children on a 90-day trip around the world. They've written a book called "12,000 Miles in the Nick of Time: A Semi-Dysfunctional Family Circumnavigates the Globe."
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