Oriana Leckert, Kickstarter's journalism expert, shares the first episode of The View from Somewhere, a podcast about journalism with a purpose. Host Lewis Raven Wallace shares the story of losing his job after raising questions about the value of journalistic objectivity.

If you had to make a playlist that represented life on Earth, what would you include? That’s challenge a team of artists, scientists and musicologists led by astronomer Carl Sagan set for themselves in 1977. They compiled a gold-plated record of greetings, sounds, and music representing life on...

Why are wild animals the key to making fighter jets more exciting on-screen? Who bailed out Stanley Kubrick when his epic battle sequence sounded like pots and pans? And what did Jacques Cousteau have in common with Darth Vader? Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound, a groundbreaking new...