Starting with Fire: A Conversation with Mai Der Vang
Mai Der Vang discusses her new poetry collection, YELLOW RAIN.
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Posts Tagged: Radiolab
We Love You Back, Andrew Sullivan!
We just noticed that Andrew Sullivan linked to our interview with Oliver Sacks on his website the Dish. (He also linked to an interview Sacks did with the superb radio show/podcast Radiolab. If you liked our interview, you’ll probably like that one too!) Thanks, Andrew, we love you back!
...moreRadiolab Live
Rumpus contributor Maddie Oatman profiles Radiolab’s Jad Abumrad for Mother Jones. What happens when a nerdy science show experiments with live stage performances? A sneak peak: “‘Even Charles Darwin himself—Chuck D!—says, “The eye, to this day, gives me sort of a shudder,”‘ Abumrad declares. As he reflects on the evolution of photon-grabbing proteins called opsins, […]
...moreThe Rumpus Interview with Jonah Lehrer
If you listened to Radiolab or read the New Yorker in the last three years, you’ve probably encountered the science journalist Jonah Lehrer.
...moreYour Words Might Know You Better Than You Do
“I was seeing something about the human mind. I was seeing the author in the text in a way that people hadn’t seen the author in the text before.” Jed Abumrad of Radiolab talks with scientists about how our use of words—the density and complexity of our sentences, or lack thereof—may be an indicator of […]
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