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Saturday at 7:28 AM
It?s Art & Craft week at TTBOOK, but we?re not gluing macaroni to cardboard.
From the halls of London?s Victoria and Albert Museum, to MIT's Center for Bits and Atoms... what we make shapes our future.
What Are You Making?; Craft, Reconsidered - Glenn Adamson; Inside Out Art; Crafting Technology; Making Punk - Richard Hell.
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Sat May 11, 2013 at 7:47 AM
we explore how the Internet is changing our lives. Jaron Lanier on "Who Owns the Future?"; Douglas Rushkoff on "Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now"; Gabriella Coleman on "Coding Freedom: The Ethics and Aesthetics of Hacking"; James Lasdun on "Give Me Everything You Have: On Being Stalked".
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Sat May 4, 2013 at 5:17 AM
We explore what it means to own your body The Scar Project; The Barbershop; Aubrey Ralph - a look at being transgender; Jim Fleming on The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock; Sally Gross on movement and dance; David Stockman on The Great Deformation.
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Sat April 27, 2013 at 8:16 AM
There are lots of classic poems out there. But poetry?s no anachronism. It?s pulsing and swelling and beating new rhythms.
From online verse to the new US Poet Laureate, from poetry criticism to the form-forging work of Anne Carson, we?re packed to the rafters with poets. Come on in!
Poetry Past & Present - Christian Wiman; Poems in Our Pockets; Natasha Trethewey - U.S. Poet Laureate; Poesis with Anne Carson.
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Sat April 20, 2013 at 5:20 AM
What makes a scientific revolution? Rupert Sheldrake on "Science Set Free"; Thomas Kuhn's "Structure of Scientific Revolutions"; Margalit Fox on "The Riddle of the Labyrinth"; Stephen Greenblatt on "The Swerve"; Daphne Sheldrick on "Love, Life and Elephants".
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Sat April 6, 2013 at 5:31 AM
When a twin dies, what happens to the survivor? Bianca Bosker on "Original Copies: Architectural Mimicry in Contemporary China"; Marcus Boon on "In Praise of Copying"; Barry Vacker on "The End of the World -- Again: Why the Apocalypse Meme Replicates in Media, Science, and Culture"; Emily Anthes on "Frankenstein's Cat: Cuddling Up to Biotech's Brave New Beasts"; Christa Parravani on "Her".
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Sat March 30, 2013 at 5:19 AM
A look back at some of TTBOOK's most powerful interviews. TTBOOK'S first interview with Sherman Alexie; TTBOOK looks back at Amy-Wallace Havens on her brother David Foster Wallace; TTBOOK reflects on David Foster Wallace's Commencent Speech; TTBOOK's first interview with biologist E.O. Wilson; TTBOOK looks back at jazz singer Kurt Elling.
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Sat March 23, 2013 at 7:31 AM
America's war in Iraq from the view of the "boots on the ground." 10 Years in Iraq - Donovan Campbell; 10 Years in Iraq - Kayla Williams; 10 Years in Iraq - Kevin Powers; 10 Years in Iraq - Colby Buzzell; 10 Years in Iraq - Brian Turner.
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Sat March 16, 2013 at 5:26 AM
George Saunders on the art of the short story George Saunders on "Tenth of December"; Tom Perrotta on "Best American Short Stories 2012"; Karen Russell on "Vampires in the Lemon Grove".
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Sat March 9, 2013 at 4:32 PM
Forget six degrees of separation, it's becoming fewer all the time. Lada Adamic on data science at Facebook; Alexander Stille on Revolutionary Poetry in Somalia; Olga Nunes on voice mail; Miguel Paz on Poderopedia; Jason Rohrer on Chain World.