Jun 23 Weekly Poem: Nick Lantz reads ‘Fork with Two Tines Pushed Together’ By Victoria Fleischer Nick Lantz has written three books of poetry. He won the Bread Loaf Writers Conferences Bakeless Prize for his first collection, "We Don’t Know We Don’t Know," and the Felix Pollack Prize in Poetry for his second collection, "The Lightning… Continue reading
Jun 22 Erbil Citadel in Kurdistan among new UNESCO heritage sites By Vic Pasquantonio The newly-designated sites include both cultural and natural-made landmarks. Continue reading
Jun 22 Watch Rubik’s Cube’s mystique remains 40 years later By PBS News Hour In a classic Rubik’s Cube, twenty-six cubes are designed to interlock and rotate around an axis that can be shuffled 43-quintillion ways. It couldn’t be simpler invention, but for most of us, the Rubik's Cube poses a daunting task. This… Continue watching
Jun 21 Watch Auction for 18th century viola starts at $45 million By PBS News Hour An 18th century viola by Antonio Stradivarius, the famed Italian lute-maker, is up for auction at Sotheby's starting at $45 million. The old stringed instruments, known as "Strads" are praised for their masterful craftsmanship. But a French researcher who blindfolded… Continue watching
Jun 21 Violinmaker uses CT scans, 3D lasers to hone craft By Connie Kargbo Brooklyn violinmaker Samuel Zygmuntowicz has been crafting stringed instruments for about 30 years, and is increasingly using modern tools like computerized tomography and 3D laser vibration scans to perfect his instruments. Continue reading
Jun 17 Picasso’s ‘Blue Room’ painting hides another masterpiece By Colleen Shalby Using infrared technology, scientists and researchers have discovered a painting of a man hidden below the “Blue Room.”… Continue reading
Jun 16 Watch In ‘The True American,’ victim of attempted murder tries to save attacker By PBS News Hour If you could face the man who tried to kill you, what would you do? A new book, “The True American: Murder and Mercy in Texas,” tells the story of Raisuddin Bhuiyan, a U.S. immigrant from Bangladesh, who was shot… Continue watching
Jun 16 Watch Jason Moran strikes up the band — and a conversation — to enthrall new jazz listeners By PBS News Hour Continue watching