Mariana Gosnell tells Anne Strainchamps why ice floats, and stories about ice bergs.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Jane Siberry is a recording artist who’s worked in all sorts of popular music genres. Anne Strainchamps talks with Jane Siberry about her music, prose and poetry.
Jonathan Pieslak, author of "Sound Targets: American Soldiers and the Music in the Iraq War," talks with Jim Fleming about how U.S. forces use music and who they listen to.
Jeffrey Goldberg talks with Jim Fleming about the role of the "public Intellectual" in Israel, the coming demographic problem the country faces, and expresses some doubt about Israel's long-term viability as a Jewish democracy.
Katie Salen is a game designer, interactive designer, animator, and design educator. She talks to Anne Strainchamps about what children can learn from designing and playing games.
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.
Robert Ellis Orrall is a musician who lives in Nashville, on the same street where Al Gore bought a house. So he wrote a song about it!
Leonard Zwilling tells Jim Fleming about boxing’s impact on the English language. It’s yielded such words and phrases as fan, throw in the towel, and up to scratch.
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