COVER STORY
Time
Host Kurt Andersen and novelist and physicist Alan Lightman talk about how art plays with time.

DJ Screw
In the 1990's Houston-based DJ Screw took popular hip-hop mixes and slowed them down to half their playing speed. The resulting sound has cast a spell over Texas. Produced by Michael May.
Go to The Screw Shop
Go to an MTV article on DJ Screw

Michigan Central Depot
The photographer Robert Polidori and urban planner Kristin Palm look at what time and abandonment have done to the once majestic Detroit train station. Produced by Tamar Charney, from Michigan Radio in Ann Arbor.
Go to a Metropolis magazine article
Go to a site about the Michigan Central Station

Cinematic Time
In the movies, a single cut can jump several decades. Bullets stop and linger onscreen. Three film critics dissect how directors have twisted time in recent movies. Produced by Jonathan Mitchell.
Go to the Memento site
Go to the Run Lola Run site
Go to the Timecode site

10,000-Year Clock
The Long Now Foundation is designing a clock to tell time over 10,000 years. It will tick once a year, chime once a century, and play music once a millennium. Produced by Leital Molad.
Go to the Long Now Foundation site

SPECIAL GUEST
Alan Lightman
is a novelist and physicist. He is an adjunct Professor of Humanities at MIT and the author of several books including Einstein's Dreams and most recently The Diagnosis.
Go to Alan Lightman's site
Go to The Diagnosis

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Commentary
That 80's Show
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Design For The Real World Multimedia artist and designer Ben Rubin explains the origin of something we hear everyday -- the telephone ring. Produced by Steve Nelson.
Thanks to Edward Eckert from Lucent Archives for providing the historic phones.

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