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Gracie Award-winner 'Sounding Black'

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Playwright and performer Sarah Jones talks about what it means to "sound black" today, and how Barack Obama has used "blaccent."
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The Hoberman Sphere

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Artist and engineer Chuck Hoberman talks about what led him to his famous invention, which will soon be put into orbit around the Earth.
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When money is the muse

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Fed up living as a starving writer, Katy Lederer took a job at a hedge fund, but she kept writing poetry on the side, often about money and our complicated lust for it.
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Obama and the arts

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Dana Gioia, outgoing chairman of the NEA on the importance of the President-elect's appreciation of the arts.
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The art of perception of art

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Dr. Denis Pelli researches how we read, identify shapes, even why we find art compelling.
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Ask a Harvard Psychologist

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Howard Gardner -- who developed the theory of multiple intelligences -- on the power of changing our minds and our lives.
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Annie Leibovitz interview

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The photographer reminisces about her work at “Rolling Stone,” which is collected in her new book, "At Work."
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Design for the Real World: Santa

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Design guru Steven Heller explains how Father Christmas became branded as a jolly bearded old man in a red suit.
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The legacy of Bell Labs

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In the second half of the 20th century, Bell Labs was a hotbed of unfettered creativity, churning out inventions, patents, and Nobel Prizes.
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Aha Moment: "Love and Rockets"

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Comic book author-illustrator Jessica Abel has a gift for depicting paralyzing awkwardness -- she works from experience.
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