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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 ...

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  Tim Minchin Performs Live

  He's a punky, eyeliner-wearing redhead who sings about racists and elitists. Breaking taboos is pretty much Tim Minchin's specialty. The comedian-singer-songwriter is already ...

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  Wesley Stace Becomes John Wesley Harding

  Wesley is a talented man. His third novel (under his given name, Wesley Stace) came out this year, a crime story called Charles Jessold, Considered ...

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  The Two Worlds of Gabriel Kahane

  On a given weekend, you might find Gabriel Kahane performing a piano sonata in a concert hall ... or stumble upon him at a bar, playing ...