Al Franken and Katherine Lanpher present "The Audio Crawl."
Al Franken and Katherine Lanpher present "The Audio Crawl."
Do you think your memory is like a video camera, storing every experience you've ever had? Historian Alison Winter says we tend to use technology metaphors to think about memory.
Andrea Olsen tells Steve Paulson how to extend his awareness of the body’s sensory abilities, and does an excerpt from a performance art piece on body awareness.
The winner of our 3 Minute Futures flash fiction contest: "Social Scene Alert" by J.M. Perkins, from San Diego.
Aaron Sanchez talks with Anne Strainchamps about what makes salsa irresistible and shares some of his favorite salsa recipes.
Alex Gibney is the director of the Academy Award winning documentary "Taxi to the Dark Side."
Landscape architect Anne Whiston Spirn talks about Frederick Law Olmsted’s revolutionary plan to use the processes of nature to clean up human damage to the environment.
Amitav Ghosh is a novelist whose latest, “The Glass Palace” tells the story of the millions of Indians who went to Burma during the British occupation.