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American Icons: Monticello

This is the home of America’s aspirations and its deepest contradictions. Thomas Jefferson was as passionate about building his house as he was about ...

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Merrill Garbus (tUnE-yArDs) explains how her previous career as a puppeteer impacted her performance style.

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 holds the full-page attack ad against Time Warner Cable he placed in The Greenpoint Gazette.

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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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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