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Origami

How Art Works: Origami

Arts, Culture & Media

Origami is the Japanese art of folding paper into shapes without cutting or gluing. Now, this ancient art is going high-tech. The emerging field of computational origami uses computers and mathematics to figure out just how much you can do with a single sheet of paper. Gregory Warner caught up with origami artists and their […]

The Portrait Gets a Facelift

Arts, Culture & Media
Foldscope microscopes are made and ship flat.

A Stanford professor is revolutionizing science with $1 microscopes made almost entirely of paper

Development & Education

The Hoberman Sphere

Environment

International Origami Artists Push the Boundaries

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Aha Moment: Paper Airplanes

Environment

When Klara Hobza came upon a 40-year-old book of construction designs for paper airplanes, she had an epiphany, and the New Millennium Paper Airplane Contest was born. Now Hobza has her own paper airplane book. Jonathan Mitchell discovers how her designs took flight.

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Aha Moment: Origami

Arts, Culture & Media

Listener Ben Coleman used to teach math, so he is no stranger to geometry. But it wasn’t until he discovered a book of origami and began creating shapes of his own that his passion for geometric forms was truly realized. Produced by Nick Heling.

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Geo answer

Arts, Culture & Media

For today’s Geo Quiz we were looking for a Japanese city known as the city of water and peace. The world record for the longest paper airplane flight using origami was broken this week in Hiroshima, today’s answer. Marina Giovannelli reports.

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Korean abstract art

Arts, Culture & Media

Anchor Lisa Mullins speaks with Park Seo-Bo, the artist known as “the father of Korean abstract painting;� the 77 year-old artist currently has his first ever exhibit in New York City.

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