The Everyday Artfulness of Jugaad
Architect-designer Sanjeev Shankar talks about his latest collaboration and jugaad—the uniquely Indian social art of innovation within constraints.

Edmundo Edwards: How Thor Heyerdahl Got it Wrong
Andrew Gregg interviews Chilean archeologist Edmundo Edwards about Heyerdahl’s Kon-Tiki voyage and how his theories of cultural contact in Polynesia benefitted from Easter Islanders’ canny eagerness to please.

I Looked into David Byrne’s Eyeballs
A 2001 interview in which former-Talking Head David Byrne discusses the influence of East Asian traditional theatre on his music.