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James Dean of classical music

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is what Tim Page the music critic called Glenn Gould. Privately they were close friends. When Gould had finished his legendary 1981 re-recording of the Goldberg variations he asked Tim Page, who was then a host of a music show at WNYC, to do an interview with him. Only, Gould would script it all! Casting […]

Don’t Forget Us: Photographing the Oil Spill

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Lawrence O’Donnell on the Unreality of a Reality Show Candidate

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Neal Gabler on the Presidency as a Performance

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Why a 30-Year-Old Joke is Still Funny

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Dreaming with Snowblink

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Daniela Gesundheit and Dan Goldman, the duo behind Snowblink, introduce us to their “nondenominational, devotional pop music” and what it’s like to hear things in a visual world.

Now We’re Cooking with Math

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Mathematician Eugenia Cheng has come up with a novel way to communicate math concepts: through baking. Wouldn’t chocolate cake have made calculus more palatable?

Jacob Collier Live In-Studio

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Singer and multi-instrumentalist Jacob Collier plays songs from his new album “In My Room” … with a little help from an MIT engineer.

Canaries in the Coal Smoke

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An art historian and a biologist discovered a novel way to measure historical air pollution levels: looking soot caught in the feathers of birds from 140 years ago.

Neal Gabler on the Presidency as a Performance

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How the government-entertainment-industrial complex elected Donald Trump.

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