Hip Hop often concerns itself with everyday life, but these days there is at least one young artist who believes hip hop can change the face of devotional music.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Alan Dale says laughing at slapstick is - at its heart - an expression of our sympathy with TV and film characters who get hurt. He says it's also relief that, for once, it's not us in pain.
The style of type used by the Obama campaign is called Gotham and was designed by the team of Jonathan Hoefler and Tobias Frere-Jones.
DEVO co-founder Mark Mothersbaugh talks about his new visual art exhibition, "Myopia."
Philipp Blom tells Anne Strainchamps about some of history's great pack-rats, and what purposes their collections served.
Cognitive researcher Douglas Hofstadter explains how gendered words and phrases — like using "guys" to refer to mixed company — can oftentimes reinforce sexist attitudes.
Julia Glass tells Steve Paulson that writing the book was her way of dealing with unendurable emotional trauma.
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