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Art therapy: a place for self-expression while in pain. The post Art Therapy: A Place for Self-Expression while in Pain appeared first on https://thoughtcast.org.

The mercurial Tom Hoving, former director of the Met Museum, discusses art forgeries, and how to spot them, on ThoughtCast! The post The Hunt for Art Fakes with Tom Hoving appeared first on https://thoughtcast.org.

Note: this interview has been picked up by the public radio station WGBH, in Boston, and its sister stations WCAI and WNAN. Sadly, Bob died in March of 2017. This interview was quoted in The New York Times obituary. Robert Silvers (credit Melanie Flood) The venerable New York Review of Books was launched amidst a […] The post Revered New York Review editor Robert Silvers, R.I.P. appeared first on https://thoughtcast.org.

Taos artist Paul Pascarella lives in a spectacular spot, one many famous painters have discovered in the past - Agnes Martin, Arthur Dove, Georgia O'Keefe, Marsden Hartley, Rebecca James, Andrew Dasburg. The post Paul Pascarella – An Artist of the Mesa and the Mountain appeared first on https://thoughtcast.org.

Andres Serrano: Works 1983-93 opened at The New Museum of Contemporary Art in Soho in early 1995. It was a mid-career retrospective, and I went there to interview the controversial artist for the PBS station WNYC TV. His infamous “Piss Christ”, among other ecclesiastical subjects, was prominently featured, as well as images of Ku Klux […] The post Andres Serrano @ The New Museum of Contemporary Art appeared first on https://thoughtcast.org.

Arianna Huffington, the author, journalist and founder of The Huffington Post, spoke with Jenny Attiyeh at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books. The post Arianna Huffington on Picasso and the Clinton White House appeared first on https://thoughtcast.org.

The comedian, writer and performer Sandra Tsing Loh speaks with Jenny Attiyeh at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books about If You Lived Here, You'd Be Home By Now, her first novel. The post Sandra Tsing Loh at the LA Times Book Festival appeared first on https://thoughtcast.org.

You’re about to hear a story about the bear whisperer of Lyme New Hampshire, Ben Kilham, and the abandoned black bear cubs he has rescued, rehabilitated and released back into the wild. Some of these cubs have formed such strong bonds with Ben, that even when they’re fully grown, they still treat him as a member of the family, so to speak, and allow him special access to their bear secrets and behavior. The post Black Bear Orphans and the Man who Reads Their Minds appeared first on https://thoughtcast.org.

Urban wildlife receive high-tech treatment at the Tufts Wildllife Clinic in Grafton Massachusetts, as Jenny Attiyeh of ThoughtCast reports. The post An Afternoon at the Tufts Wildlife Clinic appeared first on https://thoughtcast.org.

Neologisms are defined as new words or phrases (or new uses of a word or phrase). And what better place to find them than at a gathering of netizens (itself a neologism) steeped in the new world of the “net”. The Berkman Center for Internet and Society, at Harvard, recently celebrated its 10th anniversary, and ThoughtCast was there, fishing for novelty… The Catch: Internet guru Esther Dyson came up with an expression I’d never heard before… Have you? Here’s a clue: what does Google have to do with your refrigerator??!! Click here: (1 minute) to find out! But wait, there’s more! Jimmy Wales, the founder of the free online encylopedia Wikipedia, shares his thoughts on the power of one incredibly successful neologism – that amazing name! The term network neutrality was the brainchild of Tim Wu of Columbia Law School. So what does this term mean, and what power does it have?

"Different Trains" tells the story of Steve Reich's childhood - his train trips between separated parents - and also the trains Jews were forced to take during the Holocaust. The post The Borromeo String Quartet Meets Steve Reich! appeared first on https://thoughtcast.org.

Professor Randall is a theoretical particle physicist who sees past the rest of us to a world of extra dimensions and parallel universes. The post Lisa Randall, Harvard physicist appeared first on https://thoughtcast.org.