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Glass

The (Viral) Glass Menagerie

Arts, Culture & Media

Working with virologists and glassblowers, Luke Jerram creates striking and delicate representations of some of the most deadly pathogens known to man: HIV, swine flu, SARS.

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Ira Glass on His New Project, ‘The Visible and the Invisible’

Former Olympus Executive on Why He Blew The Whistle

Broken Bulb Dreams

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Geo answer

Arts, Culture & Media

The answer to today’s Geo Quiz is Queens, New York. That was the location of Louis Comfort Tiffany’s glass furnaces. Anchor Marco Werman speaks with Rosalind Pepall about a new exhibit of Tiffany’s art that’s just opened at the Luxembourg Museum in Paris.

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