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Famous names, Lost interviews. Journalists' tapes become animations with PBS Digital Studios, podcasts & radio with PRX -- blankonblank.org

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"I wrote that poem by the ice-reflected moonlight while these women were sleeping." Leonard Cohen reads his hypnotic, dreamy poem "Two Slept Together" and tells the tale of the Sisters of Mercy in our latest: http://blankonblank.org/interviews/leonard-cohen

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“What do we know of [George] Carlin?” - J. Edgar Hoover

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Happy 50th birthday to Adam “Ad-Rock” Horovitz.

Hear him at 18 in this animated 1985 interview: http://blankonblank.org/interviews/beastie-boys-on-being-stupid/

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Ronald Reagan in our latest.

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Ronald Reagan on growing up poor, Hollywood, and "oatmeal meat" in our latest episode: blankonblank.org/ronald-reagan

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“Artists never like to be labeled” - American singer-songwriter, poet and visual artist Patti Smith, featured on the all new episode of the American Masters podcast. (X)

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“It’s okay being a woman now. I like it. Try it some time.” - Nora Ephron in 1975.

Ephron covers boobs, prom queens, the women’s movement, and the fallacy of objective journalism. From a 1975 interview with Studs Terkel.

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“Ain’t no hustle where I live” - Frank Zappa in 1971.

Zappa on fads, females, and superficial audiences in this rare interview.

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RIP Muhammad Ali.

In a rare 1966 interview with two Illinois teens, The Greatest imagines boxing on Mars.

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“The most unfettered imagination belongs to young people, and they don’t walk through life; they fly” - Rod Serling in 1963

The creator of the Twilight Zone in a rarely heard interview on the occult, going back in time, and why you can never go home again. 

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“I’m a cookie-decorating mom. I don’t bake them. I decorate them.“ - Cher back in 1999. It’s our latest episode.

Cher on camp, kids, falling in and out of fame, and Sonny. Of course.

“It’s not necessary to smash your children’s personalities. They’re respectful, they know what’s right and wrong. How they live after that is their choice, and I don’t have a lot of vested interest in making them kowtow to some strange whims that I have.”

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Here’s Patti Smith on censorship, Bob Dylan, and poetry’s impact on her. 

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"[Bob Dylan and I] got our picture taken together. Did that accelerate my career? Well fuck that. I was fine without him." Patti Smith circa 1976 in our latest: blankonblank.org/patti-smith

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“When it all comes together … you become the film you’re making.”

Martin Scorsese talks framing, Westerns, and priesthood in our latest.

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Every few years, these behind-the-scenes photos of our National Museum of Natural History go viral. 

With less than one percent of the museum’s collection on display at any given time, we need a lot of drawers. 

These images, captured over the course of almost 20 years, show the vastness and variety of specimens in storage but also represent very active science that goes on at the museum. What do we do with all those birds? They allow researchers to study a species’ variability, to learn how environments change over time, and to access raw data for continual investigation as the field advances. 

The Story Behind Those Jaw-Dropping Photos of the Collections at the Natural History Museum by @smithsonianmag

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We want to go to there.

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Cosmos is a Greek word for the order of the universe. It is, in a way, the opposite of Chaos. It implies the deep interconnectedness of all things. It conveys awe for the intricate and subtle way in which the universe is put together.

Carl Sagan, Cosmos  (via fyp-philosophy)

For more gems from Sagan, check out this episode.

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Happy birthday, Jane Goodall! She’s 82 today.