Data scientist Edward Tufte (dubbed the "Galileo of graphics" by BusinessWeek) pioneered the field of data visualization. Tufte discusses what he calls "forever knowledge," and his latest projects: sculpting Richard Feynman’s diagrams, and helping people "see without words."
http://www.npr.org/2013/01/18/169708761/edward-tufte-wants-you-to-see-better
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The Seattle duo literally shakes the dust off the ceiling tiles in this performance at the NPR Music offices. In the span of about 15 minutes, the pair works through a moving message song ("Same Love"), a hilarious goof-off ("Thrift Shop") and a rousingly inspirational closer ("Can’t Hold Us").
http://www.npr.org/event/music/166256822/macklemore-ryan-lewis-tiny-desk-concert?autoplay=true
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How do you deliver presents to 760 million children in one night? Experts at FedEx and UPS talk us through the numbers.
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Data from a soil sample on Mars have NASA scientists buzzing with excitement over a finding that could be "one for the history books." But they’re not spilling the beans about their discovery just yet.
http://www.npr.org/2012/11/20/165513016/big-news-from-mars-rover-scientists-mum-for-now
In his new book, Oliver Burkeman shuns motivational seminars and the power of positive thinking in favor of uncertainty, insecurity and even pessimism. "Trying to let [negative] feelings be and not always struggling to stamp them out is a more fruitful alternative," he says.
http://www.npr.org/2012/11/13/162742151/antidote-prescribes-a-negative-path-to-happiness
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On today’s show, a North American economist and the chief of staff to a foreign president fall in love with the same idea. It’s an idea they think can solve one of the oldest, hardest problems in economics: How can poor countries get richer?
http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2012/11/09/164813887/episode-415-can-a-poor-country-start-over
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A California company is introducing shoebox-sized do-it-yourself satellite kits that will enable students and hobbyists to conduct their own space experiments. But at $8,000 a pop, who’s buying?
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=128740683
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The famed neurologist talks to Fresh Air about how grief, trauma, brain injury, medications and neurological disorders can trigger hallucinations â and about his personal experimentation with hallucinogenic drugs in the 1960s.
http://www.npr.org/2012/11/06/164360724/oliver-sacks-exploring-how-hallucinations-happen
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It’s difficult to build a working four-rotor helicopter that spans 100 feet and only weighs 80 pounds. It’s even harder when your engine is a 0.7-horsepower person. But two teams of young engineers hope to do just that.
http://www.npr.org/2012/10/14/160670295/flight-club-human-powered-helicopter
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A feast of words written for song, for print and for laughs on this episode of Cabinet of Wonders. New music, duets, and a stand against the drum machine. Then, novelist Colson Whitehead, on the trauma he survived at the hands of Coca Cola.
http://www.npr.org/2012/06/22/153923110/cabinet-of-wonders-episode-five
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