Ms.
In this Fishko Files, Ms. Fishko considers the honorific "Ms.," its checkered history and final entry into common usage. WNYC Production CreditsMix Engineer: Wayne ShulmisterAssociate Producer: Laura...
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25 Years in 25 Days (1991): The First Website
This fall, the Brian Lehrer Show is marking 25 years of Brian at WNYC with a year-by-year look at stories that mattered from 1989 to 2014. Find the full schedule and lots more here.Also today: Hear...
View ArticleFrom Martin Luther King, Jr. to Trayvon Martin
This segment originally aired live on October 30, 2014. An edited version was included in a best-of episode of The Brian Lehrer Show on November 28th. The unedited audio can be found here. Executive...
View ArticleReality Gets Demented
Quick primer: Animation used to be painted on to transparent pages, "cells," before everything went digital. If you film the cells at 24 frames per second, the drawings will appear to move fluidly....
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Composing Poetry with Predictive Text
Where would Shakespeare be without iambic pentameter? Mondrian’s paintings without his squares? Taylor Swift without the repetitive pop refrain? It’s one of the great paradoxes of creativity: structure...
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Los Angeles Is Bursting with Crystals
Mineral crystals are so beautiful, it's tempting to buy them as necklaces or coffee table ornaments even though they're so New Age-y. There's something pretty magical about the fact that their complex...
View ArticleIs This Food Racist?
How do our assumptions about people affect our assumptions about their food? And how do their assumptions about our food affect how we feel about ourselves?What happens when chefs cook a cuisine they...
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Museum Showcases Local Artists' Views of 9/11 Attacks
To commemorate the 15th anniversary of the World Trade Center attacks, the National September 11 Memorial Museum is exhibiting the work of New York-based artists who turned that day's tragedy into...
View ArticleMarcia Nasatir: The Pioneer Who Paved the Way For Women in Film
Click on the 'Listen' button above to hear this interview.With "Wonder Woman" in theaters this month, we've been thinking more than ever about women in film, both in front of and behind the camera.But...
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