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Amgad Naguib holds a fez â one of the first made in Egypt as part of a nationalist movement started in the 1930s to replace imported goods.

For Egyptian Collector, No Object's Too Dusty Or Trivial For 'Mosaic Of Our History'

6:31am April 01, 2017

by Jane Arraf

Amgad Naguib collects old ticket stubs, wigs, letters and toothbrushes that he says tell Egypt's history. "I am sure I have more dresses and hats and handbags than you and all your friends," he says.

In an exhibit at the Samek Art Museum, artist Jonathon Keats explores what the world would look like if animals and plants got to use human innovation for their own benefit. Here, flowers use "botanical sex toys" to simulate bee pollination. "What got me

Artist's Exhibit Borrows Human Tech To Solve Nature's Manmade Problems

8:51pm March 31, 2017

by Miles Parks

Artist and philosopher Jonathon Keats didn't need to create anything new to show the absurdity of human problem-solving. All he had to do was give human technology to animals.

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'Fearless Girl' Will Keep Facing Down Wall Street's Bull

5:52pm March 31, 2017

by Rose Friedman

The sculpture, "Fearless Girl," was welcomed to her perch in lower Manhattan, facing down the famous "Charging Bull" sculpture, with much fanfare. Now her lease has been extended and feelings are mixed.

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Purple, Prose: The new book Nabokov's Favorite Word is Mauve subjects thousands of books to statistical analysis.

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'Nabokov's Favorite Word Is Mauve' Crunches The (Literary) Numbers

5:25pm March 31, 2017

by Glen Weldon

In his new book, statistician Ben Blatt loads thousands of books, new and old, into a vast database and uncovers intriguing patterns in how our favorite authors write.

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Friends Ginger and Lena in All This Panic.

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Two Ways Of Documenting Uncertainty: 'All This Panic' And 'God Knows Where I Am'

5:12pm March 31, 2017

by Bob Mondello

Two documentaries out now flex a bit of moviemaking technique: All This Panic, about young women exploring what life has to offer, and God Knows Where I Am, about a woman who's sure she's seen it all.

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During World War II, Even Filmmakers Reported For Duty

3:04pm March 31, 2017

Mark Harris says the military worked with Hollywood directors to create movies about the war. His book, Five Came Back, is the basis for a new Netflix docu-series. Originally broadcast March 3, 2014.

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Dinner In A Movie

12:54pm March 31, 2017

One word in a movie's title is replaced with a rhyming food.

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Audio Rebus

12:54pm March 31, 2017

Ask Me Another adds a twist to the classic rebus, a puzzle where words are replaced by pictures. In this game, contestants hear rebuses made of sound effects and guess what phrase they create.

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Josh Groban and Lucas Steele with Ophira Eisenberg on Ask Me Another.

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Josh Groban And Lucas Steele: Double Your Pleasure

12:54pm March 31, 2017

Josh Groban and Lucas Steele from The Great Comet, a musical based on Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace, share what makes their show unique, from audience interaction to immersive sound design.

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Wisdom Of The Crowd

12:54pm March 31, 2017

Guest musician Julian Velard must decide whose numeric estimations he trusts more, a recent live audience polled at The Bell House OR puzzle guru Cecil Baldwin.

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