Arts

Arts

Despite Its Charm, 'Ghostbusters' Remake Comes Up Short On Laughs

3:41pm July 15, 2016

by David Edelstein

Paul Feig's remake of the 1984 hit stars four actresses as the ghostbusters. Critic David Edelstein says while the concept for the movie is solid, the film itself "has no satirical ideas of its own."

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A Maasai warrior with cattle in Kenya. His beaded adornments are the kind of objects featured at the Baltimore Museum of Art's "Designs for Mobile Living: Art from Eastern Africa" exhibit.

When You're A Nomad, You Need Portable Art

10:39am July 15, 2016

by Diane Cole

A new exhibit at the Baltimore Museum of Art shows how the Maasai and other cultures transform bowls, belts and shields into objects of beauty.

How Will 'Cut And Paste' Technology Rewrite Our DNA?

10:00am July 15, 2016

by NPR/TED Staff

Biochemist Sam Sternberg describes how recent developments in gene editing technology may help end many diseases and even control our own evolution.

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How Do Nature And Nurture Combine To Make Us Who We Are?

10:00am July 15, 2016

by NPR/TED Staff

Psychologist Steven Pinker describes how far we've come in understanding how both nature and nurture make us ... us.

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Arts

Are You Ready To Take The 'Human' Test?

10:00am July 15, 2016

by NPR/TED Staff

If you've ever wondered: Am I human? — humorist Ze Frank offers an idiosyncratic quiz that can help provide the answer.

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Science
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Where Does Consciousness Come From?

10:00am July 15, 2016

by NPR/TED Staff

Philosopher John Searle argues that consciousness is what makes us human. He makes the case for studying consciousness and accepting it as a biological phenomenon.

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Books
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Like These Books? Here Are 60+ Things You Might Also Like ...

9:35am July 15, 2016

You know that feeling when you put down a great book and all you want is more? We took 27 recent books and paired them with movies, musicals, TV shows, comics and podcasts to keep your buzz going.

'Game Of Thrones,' 'Veep,' 'The Americans' Scoop Up Emmy Nominations

9:58pm July 14, 2016

by Eric Deggans

The nominations for the 68th Emmy Awards were announced Thursday morning in Beverly Hills, Calif. They highlight another year of high quality and diverse television.

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Arts

'The Money Was The Soft Spot': 'The Infiltrator' On Taking Down Pablo Escobar

6:53pm July 14, 2016

NPR's Robert Siegel talks to Robert Mazur, the federal agent who went undercover as a money launderer to take down the banks behind Pablo Escobar's Medellin Cartel. Bryan Cranston plays Mazur in the new movie, The Infiltrator, which dramatizes the years long operation.

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In 1964's The Best Man, presidential candidate and principled intellectual William Russell (Henry Fonda) competes with a TV-savvy opportunist at his (unspecified) party's convention.

What Do Contested Conventions Look Like? Ask Hollywood And Sinclair Lewis

6:53pm July 14, 2016

by Bob Mondello

Thanks to movies, novels and TV, Bob Mondello knows what a contested convention would be like: raucous crowd, oppressive din and (if movies are any guide) Angela Lansbury scheming in the corner.

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