Matt Frassica

Astrophysicist Janna Levin explains why it took scientists 100 years to confirm one of Einstein’s most outlandish predictions: gravitational waves.

How the government-entertainment-industrial complex elected Donald Trump.

Mathematician Eugenia Cheng has come up with a novel way to communicate math concepts: through baking. Wouldn’t chocolate cake have made calculus more palatable?

Daniela Gesundheit and Dan Goldman, the duo behind Snowblink, introduce us to their “nondenominational, devotional pop music” and what it’s like to hear things in a visual world.

Nobel prize winning neuroscientist, Dr. Eric Kandel, fuses his knowledge of the human brain and his love for visual art.

The host of MSNBC’s “The Last Word” has been inside Washington and also fictionalized it as a writer for “The West Wing.” But he’d never have written a fictional candidate like Trump.

The annual Dance Your PhD contest challenges doctoral candidates to take their research from the lab bench to the barre.

Kurt Andersen always remembered being inspired by his 11th grade English teacher, Gary Sedlacek. So he decided to give him a call.

When Sian Heder worked as a hotel nanny, the writer-director of “Tallulah” was tempted to kidnap a neglected baby. Instead, she made a movie about it.

With so many British actors playing American characters, Kurt wondered: how hard would it be to learn a convincing British accent?

The neuroscientist Sophie Scott says modern science is missing a big part of human experience by ignoring laughter.

Kurt and Mary Harris, the host of Only Human, check out something called laughter yoga.

Comedian Chris Gethard says comedy helped him when he was suffering from depression—but it wasn’t until he got help that his career took off.    

How does laughter yoga make you feel? And can laughing improve your health?

Fresh off a breakup, the folky, autoharp-wielding Canadian songwriter Basia Bulat went into the studio in Louisville, Kentucky. She came out with a bona fide pop album.

Shamir Bailey burst out of high school obscurity with his blend of infectious dance rhythms and ebullient energy. But he warns his legions of new fans: this is only version one.

A new opera imagines how John F. Kennedy spent the night before his assassination.

The Pulitzer Prize-winning writer explains why her midlife career change wasn’t as hard as you’d think.

In his new book, “Better Living Through Criticism,” New York Times movie critic A.O. Scott argues that criticism is the highest form of art.

The pioneering photographer Laurie Simmons started out taking pictures of dollhouse furniture — inspiring “Tiny Furniture,” her daughter Lena Dunham’s breakout film.