The astounding mad scientist life of Nikola Tesla. Just who was this pioneer of radio, radar, and wireless communication? We discover his legacy in the work of today’s scientists and artists. Samantha Hunt’s new novel The Invention of Everything Else is a fictional portrait of Tesla. Monologist Mike Daisey tells us how Tesla X-rayed Mark Twain’s head. And across the country, garage inventors toil in obscurity at the next breakthrough that will change the world.
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Studio 360: Nikola Tesla: Strange Genius
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The ‘Spark of creative inspiration | PRI.ORG
In the new book ‘Spark’ artist Chuck Close, writer Isabel Allende, musician Robert Plant and others give readers an inside look at their creative processes and inspiration.
http://www.pri.org/arts-entertainment/books/spark-book-creative-inspiration2616.html
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Surveillance
We spy on the new culture of surveillance. Kurt Andersen talks to technologist and philosopher Jaron Lanier about why we have to watch the watchers. An artist meticulously tracks government spy satellites crossing the night sky. A computer scientist explains what goes into building a facial recognition system. And sitting silently in her car, a photographer secretly snaps pictures of strangers in their homes.
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Barbie – Studio 360
Excellent item on Barbie, in another excellent episode of Studio 360.
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PRI’s Studio 360: Ask a Harvard Psychologist
Howard Gardner — who developed the theory of multiple intelligences — on the power of changing our minds and our lives.
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Transmit This | Studio 360
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 1943. Jim Stagnitto, the Director of Engineering for WNYC, gives Kurt a tour at the top of the Empire State Building to check out a radio transmitter in action. http://www.studio360.org/episodes/2008/11/28 (Other segments may be interesting too.)
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Wylie, Eggs, Chihuahuas
Kurt Andersen visits the kitchen of Wylie Dufresne, who owns the adventurous New York restaurant WD-50. Dufresne believes that the organic ingredients and fine food are not incompatible with the kind of chemicals we might see on a packet of Twinkies. We’ll follow the creation of a single dish — Eggs Benedict — from the egg farm to the taste test.
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