Philip Ball tells Anne Strainchamps that artists had to be chemists for centuries and that often the paintings we see now look nothing like the originals.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Lawrence Osborne tells Anne Strainchamps he set out to teach himself what a wine critic knows. He thinks he did, but isn’t sure we need critics at all.
You'll have to know the great expectations of Cornell students to be successful for this round of the Whad'Ya Know? Quiz!
Neil McCormick believed he was going to be the world’s biggest rock star, but that’s what happened to his childhood friend, Bono.
Is marriage great literary material? That’s the question Jeffrey Eugenides plays with in his novel, “The Marriage Plot”. It’s a story about how reading can shape young minds.
In this UNCUT interview, Steve Paulson talks with Eugenides about marriage, love, reading, the spiritual quest,...
Sixty years after those Avant Garde composers of the 1920s, some Japanese musicians followed in their footsteps, exploring the outer reaches of sound with “noise music.”
According to psychologist Meagan Curtis, the inherent sadness of the minor third is what we hear in music.
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.
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