Urban sprawl is a staggering problem in China as a result of the on-going Chinese industrial revolution.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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What's it like to hang out with the U.S. president? Journalist Michael Lewis found out when he shadowed Barack Obama for 8 months, even playing in one of Obama's pick-up basketball games.
Rachel Fershleiser and Larry Smith tell Anne Strainchamps how they got started soliciting six-word memoirs, recite some of their favorites, and say that crafting them can become an addiction.
Mamak Khadem came to America from Iran to finish high school. She began to sing Persian music to stay connected to her homeland.
According to psychologist Meagan Curtis, the inherent sadness of the minor third is what we hear in music.
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.
Nadine Svoboda’s been all over the world listening to forests. She records their sounds for the British Library Sound Archive.
Mike Tidwell is a freelance journalist who thinks he’s found the biggest environmental catastrophe in America. In this pre-Katrina interview, Tidwell talks about the time he spent with shrimpers in the bayou country and what they taught him about the devastating price we’re paying for the way we control floods on the Mississippi River.
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