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  Merrill Garbus Becomes tUnE-yArDs

  Merrill Garbus is the performer and multi-instrumentalist behind tUnE-yArDs — a music project that blends African-inspired rhythms and vocals with electric bass and saxophone. But she ...

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  Eugene Mirman vs. The Cable Guy

  The Brooklyn-based comedian Eugene Mirman is the stand-up king of hipsterville. He was a regular on the HBO series Flight of the Concords and now ...

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  Beauty, Truth, Math, Art

  Last month, thousands of mathematicians attended the Joint Mathematics Meeting in Boston — the largest annual gathering of its kind. In addition to presentations on phylogenetic ...

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  Eve Beglarian's Huck Finn Adventure

  In 2009 the composer Eve Beglarian spent four months traveling down the Mississippi River. The sounds and stories she gathered from the trip inspired her ...

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  Transmit This

  A lot of us learned that Guglielmo Marconi invented radio, but Nikola Tesla transmitted electromagnetic waves before Marconi — the Supreme Court decided the case in ...

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  Teacher Redesign Revealed

  Last fall, Kate Ahearn from Haverhill, Massachusetts, wrote in begging us to redesign the image of teachers. "I have been teaching for 15-plus years and ...

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  Harold O'Neal's Marvelous Fantasy

  A few hundred years ago, classical pianists would impress audiences by original cadenzas in the middle of a concerto — riffing, we would say now. Now ...

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  Tim Minchin's Christmas Carol

  Tim Minchin closes the show with a Christmas song he wrote for his daughter. And although he’s got a bone to pick with the ...

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  True Confessions: Taboos Revealed

  It’s easy enough to mock fallen taboos — but is nothing sacred? We asked our audience to fill in the blanks: "_______ is a taboo ...