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  Keeping Up with the Sarah Joneses

  The Tony Award-winning writer and performer (“Bridge & Tunnel”), briefs Kurt on her experiences at the Aspen Ideas Festival, a gathering of big thinkers to tackle ...

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  Iraqi Boy Band

  When UTN1 first formed in the late '90s, the Baghdad boys rebelled against conservative Muslim culture by embracing fun and frivolous Western pop. But they ...

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  Remembering Rosenman

  Composer Leonard Rosenman passed away earlier this year but his scores for films like "East of Eden," "Fantastic Voyage," and "Rebel Without a Cause" live ...

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  Garage Inventors

  All over the country, amazing science is happening without institutional or government funding. Matt Cavnar talked to inventors in garages, basements, a Quonset hut, even ...

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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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  Design for the (Japanese) World: Vol. 2

  More great design solutions that I wish we could bring back with us to the US:

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  Say you're shopping in a department ...

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  Meanwhile, back at Studio 360...

  Kurt Andersen and most of the staff are in Japan. Who's minding the shop?

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  Revenge of the nerds

  Holy Geekdom! The DENPA party Sunday night was euphoric. Two floors full of happy nerds, dressed up as their favorite manga/anime/computer game characters ...

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  Kurt, Pico, and Bambi

  Yesterday the whole team was in Nara (30 minutes by train from Kyoto) to meet with the writer Pico Iyer -- we've turned to him ...

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  Mysterious Mountain Monk

  For Tokyo's size, density, and sprawl (those last 2 things might sound contradictory, but here they're not), it has tons of parks -- big ...