Derek John

American Icons: ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’ — Part Two

“My distrust of technology comes entirely from that movie.”

American Icons: ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’ — Part Two

American Icons: ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’ — Part One

American Icons: ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’ — Part One

Aha Moment: 'Peanuts' in Panama

Aha Moment: 'Peanuts' in Panama

American Icons: ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’ — Part Two

American Icons: ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’ — Part Two

American Icons: ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’ — Part One

American Icons: ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’ — Part One

Space is the place

How musicians like Sun Ra and George Clinton imagined a better world through Afrofuturism.

Space is the place

Aha Moment: Whoopi Goldberg

How the hilariously profane comedian inspired a young girl from the Bronx.

Aha Moment: Whoopi Goldberg

Aha Moment: Peanuts in Panama

How Victoria de Puy and her daughter Geraldine came to understand their relationship through the friendship of Snoopy and Woodstock.

Aha Moment: Peanuts in Panama

Discovering an Imaginary Soul Star

He’s made more albums than anyone else, but you’ve never heard a note he’s played.

Discovering an Imaginary Soul Star
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Romare Bearden: An Artist in Winter

Probably the most famous African-American visual artist of the 20th century, Romare Bearden was best known for a singular approach to collage art that incorporated scraps of wallpaper, glossy magazines, and fabric into a kind of patchwork cubism.

Romare Bearden: An Artist in Winter
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Craig Marks: I Want My MTV

Thirty years ago, hardly anyone knew what a music video was.

Craig Marks: I Want My MTV

Remembering Barney Rosset, Malcolm X's Publisher

The boundary-pushing publisher Barney Rosset died on Tuesday. He was 89. Rosset was the founder of Grove Press, where he made a name for himself publishing titles no one else would to...

Remembering Barney Rosset, Malcolm X's Publisher
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Garage Inventors

All over the country, amazing science is happening without institutional or government funding. We visit inventors working in garages, basements, even a Quonset hut on a farm.

Garage Inventors
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Big in 2012: Our Predictions

Kurt Andersen, Mary Elizabeth Williams and Paul Rudnick prognosticate.

Big in 2012: Our Predictions
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Encyclopedia Brown

Forty-eight years ago, Donald J. Sobol put sneakers on Sherlock Holmes and set him in small-town America. Produced by Studio 360's Derek John.

Encyclopedia Brown