"Cool Jeweled Dreams (Oceans in the Sky)" accompanied by the photographer's caption: "And suddenly, they could reach out and touch their dreams, for God had made the impossible… possible.

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"The more important thing which spoke to me — above love and all that — was that I had to live for my own identity. I wanted to stand on my own two feet and do what was right, regardless of any social pressure."
—Ashok Jain
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—Nadia S. Mohammad

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Sarah Kay Performs "Hiroshima" on Nantucket
Sarah Kay's poem "Hiroshima" ends this week's show. How we even knew that this audio existed came about as a result of a serendipitous invitation to The Nantucket Project.
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Sarah Kay Performs "B" at the Bowery
We hijacked the audio from this performance of "B" for this week's podcast featuring our interview with spoken word poet Sarah Kay.
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When a Jain Marries a Bengali: An Indian Love Story That Defied Tradition
Thirty-four years after he first defied India's caste system to "marry up," a Jain man talks about the perseverance and difficulties of marrying outside his caste in India.
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Enhancing YouTube Audio of Sarah Kay's "Tshotsholoza" for Public Radio
Making quality public radio and illustrating a guest's point can be a tricky. Take, for instance, the poem going into the midpoint break of our interview with Sarah Kay. The clip is excerpted from Ms. Kay's June 2010 performance of "Tshotsholoza" at the Acumen Fund's *spark! event in New York City.
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Counting the Omer in the Modern Day
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Mathematics, Purpose, and Truth
(May 31, 2012)
As a theoretical physicist, Janna Levin probes whether the universe is finite or infinite. As a novelist, she explored the separate but parallel lives of two influential 20th-century scientists: Kurt Gödel and Alan Turing. Their work laid the foundations for computer intelligence while challenging fundamental notions about how we can know what is true.