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#1674: Exploring a virtual painting| The Best of Our Knowledge
The Best of Our Knowledge, WAMC’s long-running program on education, research, and ideas, has a new host. On the next episode, WAMC’s Lucas Willard...
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#1673: School libraries and free speech | The Best of Our Knowledge
PEN America, a nonprofit focused on free speech and expression through the written word that was founded in 1922, has been at the forefront...
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#1672: Ornithology | The Best Of Our Knowledge
Andrew Farnsworth is a senior research associate at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, and has led a career that’s focused on migration and how...
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#1671: Unionization at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago
From Amazon warehouses to the galleries of major cultural institutions, unionization has seemingly undergone a sort of revitalization during the pandemic. The National Labor...
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#1670: Outsider art explained
If the academy, gallery system and museums have the power to define and promote art, the countless works that are ignored make up an...
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#1669: Trees store trove of useful data
Whatever allure trees might hold, they also have scads of data stored within their trunks. Daniel Griffin, an assistant professor of geography at the...