Lynn Levy

Lynn Levy appears in the following:

Brace Yourself — There's a Lot of TV Coming Your Way

Thursday, October 08, 2015

John Landgraf, the CEO of FX, thinks there are just too many shows on TV — and that could be a big problem.

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Better Chemistry Through Beauty

Monday, October 05, 2015

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Chemical Bouillon uses their chemistry set to make swirling, dripping, entrancing works of art.
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Extra Credit: Learning from the Popsicle Stick Master

Thursday, October 01, 2015

David Hrobowski is building every piece of furniture in his house out of popsicle sticks. You don’t have to be that obsessed to enter our extra credit challenge — but it couldn’t hurt. 

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Hello: The Broadcast

Wednesday, September 30, 2015

In this episode, we try to make contact with some of the strangest strangers on our little planet: animals.

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Dolphin Talk

Wednesday, September 30, 2015

Denise Herzing has been studying the same pod of wild dolphins for 30 years, waiting for them to say "Hello."

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Home Is Where Your Dolphin Is

Wednesday, September 30, 2015

In the 1960s, Margaret Howe had a very unusual roommate: a bottlenose dolphin named Peter.

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Eat, Pray, Work: Elizabeth Gilbert’s Secret to Creativity

Thursday, September 17, 2015

Elizabeth Gilbert shares advice for being creative from her new book, “Big Magic.” Turns out it might be something you know already. 

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Alice Cooper Will Not Stop Dying

Thursday, September 03, 2015

When Alice Cooper burst onto the scene, he was denounced as Satanic and a bad influence. But one of his biggest fans, Groucho Marx, understood that “Coop” was rehabilitating vaudeville.

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Shaken and Stirred by a Black 007

Thursday, September 03, 2015

If Idris Elba is “too street” to play James Bond, will we ever have a black 007?

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Lily Tomlin’s Audacious Life

Thursday, August 27, 2015

Lily Tomlin has squeezed more out of life than most people, but she has a few words of advice for her younger self: “Barrel through life with all the audacity you can.”

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Infinite Jester: Jason Segel Plays David Foster Wallace

Thursday, August 13, 2015

Jason Segel isn’t playing a sweet stoner in “The End of the Tour” — he’s playing doomed genius David Foster Wallace. How’d that happen?

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The Bird and the Bee Live In-Studio

Thursday, August 06, 2015

Inara George and Greg Kurstin — The Bird and the Bee — managed to record their gorgeous new record around busy family schedules by meeting up just once a week.

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How to Make a Moth

Wednesday, August 05, 2015

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Two artists and programmers built an automated moth generator that turns tweets into gorgeous insects. The only question is: why?
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To Kill a Childhood Hero

Thursday, July 16, 2015

In Harper Lee’s newly published novel, “Go Set a Watchman,” Atticus Finch has turned into a bigot. "LA Times" reviewer David Ulin says we should have seen it coming.

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This Pioneering Cosmonaut Will Be Your New Heroine, Thanks to "Orange is the New Black"

Wednesday, July 08, 2015

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I knew nothing about the first woman in space — I didn't even know her name. That is, until "Orange is the New Black" sent me into a research wormhole. 
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Live In Studio: Braids

Thursday, June 11, 2015

The members of the band Braids have been making music since high school, and that familiarity shows on their latest album, “Deep in the Iris.”

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What Do Dolphins Talk About?

Thursday, August 21, 2014

Denise Herzing has been studying the same pod of wild dolphins for 30 years. But this year, things are different.

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Home Is Where Your Dolphin Is

Thursday, August 21, 2014

In the 1960s, Margaret Howe had a very unusual roommate: a bottlenose dolphin named Peter.   

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Hello

Thursday, August 21, 2014

It's tough to make small talk with a stranger—especially when that stranger doesn't speak your language. (And he has a blowhole.)

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≤ kg

Friday, June 13, 2014

In this short, we meet a very special cylinder. It's the gold standard (or, in this case, the platinum-iridium standard) for measuring mass.
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