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April 29, 2016 Franz Kafka Franz Kafka is a guide to some very dark feelings most of us know well concerned with powerlessness, self-disgust and anxiety. This literary genius turned the stuff of nightmares into redemptive, consoling art. |
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April 28, 2016 The Instrument That Lets You Play the (Electromagnetic) Field It's the only instrument in the world that you play without physically touching it, and its siren call has lured Hollywood and musicians alike in pursuit of its eerie, otherworldly sound. The Theremin, named for its inventor, Leon Theremin?, is a synthesizer controlled by electromagnetic fields. Pamelia Stickney is one of its best players. |
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April 27, 2016 How It's Made -- Rubber Gloves Hands...hands...so many hands! |
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| April 22, 2016 A Brief History of the American $20 Bill Harriet Tubman is replacing Andrew Jackson on the US $20 bill, but she won't actually be the first female depicted on the currency note. |
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| April 19, 2016 Martin Scorsese on Framing In this new episode we have a previously unheard conversation with legendary director, Martin Scorsese, on how he's framed his movies and his life. The early foray into making a movie as a kid, toying with becoming a priest, and where his parents fit into all this. And wouldn't you like to see a Scorsese Western? |
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| April 18, 2016 What is Zero? Is zero really a number? How did it come about? Hannah Fry tells the story of how zero went from nothing to something. |
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| April 14, 2016 The Next Rembrandt Blurring the boundaries between art and technology, ING, Microsoft, TU Delft, Mauritshuis, and Rembrandthuis set out on a challenge to see if the great Master can be brought back to life to create a new painting. |
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| April 13, 2016 Temple Grandin On Her Search Engine "Everything in my mind works like a search engine set for the image function." - Temple Grandin in 2008, from an oral history at Colorado State University |
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| April 12, 2016 The Town That Took on the Taxman For some of the UK's biggest companies, paying corporation tax seems to be optional. Using devilishly complicated - but completely legal - accounting techniques, they can run rings around HMRC. Now, the small businesses of one Welsh town are fighting back. The local traders of Crickhowell in the Brecon Beacons are embarking on a mission to copy the techniques used by their multinational rivals, and to set up a DIY tax avoidance scheme of their very own. |
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| April 11, 2016 Jim Jefferies — Gun Control |
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| April 8, 2016 Spintop Snipers This is next level trick shots using a top! Probably didn’t think you could do this with a spintop. |
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| April 7, 2016 Why Are Vegetarians Annoying? In which Hank Green delves into the meme of the annoying vegetarian, where it comes from, why it annoys us, and what's really at the root of it all. |
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| April 5, 2016 Carl Sagan on Extraterrestrials "A literal reading of the Bible simply is a mistake; I mean it’s just wrong" - Carl Sagan on October 4, 1985, as told to Studs Terkel. |
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| April 4, 2016 How Do You Make Memories? What if you couldn’t remember anything past 30 seconds? Let us introduce you to a man named Henry Molaison who was diagnosed with anterograde amnesia. He couldn’t form new memories. |
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