Jon Ronson was assigned by The Guardian newspaper to find out how easy it would be to build a dirty bomb. So he did.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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John Sedgwick was born into the historic and prominent Boston Sedgwick family and seems to have inherited the family tendency toward mental instability.
Maurice Sendak talks about growing up as a Jewish child in WWII New York.
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.”
Would you like to sharpen your memory? Science writer Joshua Foer tells you how to build an elaborate memory palace.
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.
Peggy Orenstein tells Anne Strainchamps about “parasite singles” - young Japanese, mostly female, who reject the traditional life of marriage and children.
Mamek Khadem's soundtrack for an art installation commemorating the anniversary of the Iranian Revolution.
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