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Mushrooms have inspired scientists, chefs and even musicians. Mycologist Lawrence Millman says they’ve also inspired a few composers, including Vaclav Halek and John Cage.More
Exploring the Deeper End of Ideas
Sometimes We Need A (Sonic) Break From Conversation
Sometimes a story is bigger than a conversation, and sound design can take us there. Sonic Sidebars are short, richly-textured audio essays from big names and deep thinkers.
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The Haida First Nation people in British Columbia have a myth about the origin of humanity coming from "Fungus Man." And that myth contains plenty of truth.More
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Chuck Klosterman thinks the Internet has ruined a lot of things, including death.
During basketball camp in Fargo, North Dakota, cultural critic Chuck Klosterman made an enemy — for life. And maybe that was a bad idea.
Rebecca Solnit prepares the smartphone era for a time when we no longer know how to not know where we are.
To The Best Of Our Knowledge producer Doug Gordon explains what it’s like to live with obsessive compulsions.
How does the world look to a scientist? We asked astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson….and he gave us some cooking tips.
A Teen Vogue editor finds herself arguing with Tucker Carlson. And then it gets worse.
Desperate for help with his PTSD, Dan Kasza took a strange brew of frog venom and ayahuasca.
Writer B.J. Novak imagines a roller coaster that's modelled after real life, and designed by the artist Christo.
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