How does the world look to a scientist? We asked astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson….and he gave us some cooking tips.
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.
Sonic Sidebar
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.
Choreographer Bill T. Jones says that while many of us are trying to put more skill into our lives, his mentor, the musician John Cage, spent his life trying to do just the opposite. Jones says Cage’s music was often based on randomness and chance.
An abridged version of Terry Gross' interview with Kiss rocker Gene SImmons from a 2002 episode of "Fresh Air."
Jonathan Lethem considers Philip K. Dick one of his literary heroes. Lethem talks about how Dick was able to combine his brilliant imagination with his original mainstream ambitions to produce the groundbreaking literary science fiction that he's known for.
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