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Comedian Demetri Martin has made a career out of one-liners, wordplay jokes and standup and sketch comedy that incorporates music and props. After graduating from Yale and dropping out of New York University’s School of Law, he worked as a staff writer for Late Night with Conan O’Brien and contributed to The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. In his directorial debut, Dean, Martin stars alongside Kevin Kline and Gillian Jacobs. It's out June 2. Morning Shift talks to Martin about his unlikely trajectory from law school to comedy and his new film.

Comedian Demetri Martin has made a career out of one-liners, wordplay jokes and standup and sketch comedy that incorporates music and props. After graduating from Yale and dropping out of New York University’s School of Law, he worked as a staff writer for Late Night with Conan O’Brien and contributed to The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. In his directorial debut, Dean, Martin stars alongside Kevin Kline and Gillian Jacobs. It's out June 2. Morning Shift talks to Martin about his unlikely trajectory from law school to comedy and his new film.

This May, Chicagoans will get a chance to hear from Dr. B.J. Miller when he’s in town as part of a series of medical lectures. Miller is a palliative care physician at the University of San Francisco’s Cancer Center and past executive director of the Zen Hospice Project, and he’s focused on making more emphatic palliative care available to all. It’s something he spoke about in his 2015 TED Talk “What Matters Most At the End Of Life” and something he continues to speak about publicly.

This May, Chicagoans will get a chance to hear from Dr. B.J. Miller when he’s in town as part of a series of medical lectures. Miller is a palliative care physician at the University of San Francisco’s Cancer Center and past executive director of the Zen Hospice Project, and he’s focused on making more emphatic palliative care available to all. It’s something he spoke about in his 2015 TED Talk “What Matters Most At the End Of Life” and something he continues to speak about publicly.

For the 2016-2017 school year, U.S. poet laureate Juan Felipe Herrera has been working with dozens of 9th grade teachers from public schools across Chicago. Their mission was to create new and exciting ways to teach young people how to write and appreciate poetry. We find out how they’ve done, plus ask how the U.S.’s first Chicano poet laureate — and the son of migrant farm workers — views what’s happening in today’s America

For the 2016-2017 school year, U.S. poet laureate Juan Felipe Herrera has been working with dozens of 9th grade teachers from public schools across Chicago. Their mission was to create new and exciting ways to teach young people how to write and appreciate poetry. We find out how they’ve done, plus ask how the U.S.’s first Chicano poet laureate — and the son of migrant farm workers — views what’s happening in today’s America

Ahead of the return of the 1990s cult TV classic Twin Peaks, Chicago's music box theater is celebrating the show's creator, filmmaker David Lynch, with a full retrospective of his work.  Morning Shift talks to series curator Daniel Knox about the series, David Lynch’s career and his favorite Lynch film: Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me.

Ahead of the return of the 1990s cult TV classic Twin Peaks, Chicago's music box theater is celebrating the show's creator, filmmaker David Lynch, with a full retrospective of his work.  Morning Shift talks to series curator Daniel Knox about the series, David Lynch’s career and his favorite Lynch film: Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me.

Dr. Eugenia Cheng is on a mission: To grab people and shake all the negative feelings they have about math right out of them! We’re speaking metaphorically, of course. But Cheng is doing for mathematics what Neil deGrasse Tyson has done for astronomy: Make it understandable, and make it cool. After linking math and the kitchen with her best-seller How To Bake Pi, Cheng is back with a deep dive into the limitless and the boundless with Beyond Infinity: An Expedition to the Outer Limits of Mathematics.

Dr. Eugenia Cheng is on a mission: To grab people and shake all the negative feelings they have about math right out of them! We’re speaking metaphorically, of course. But Cheng is doing for mathematics what Neil deGrasse Tyson has done for astronomy: Make it understandable, and make it cool. After linking math and the kitchen with her best-seller How To Bake Pi, Cheng is back with a deep dive into the limitless and the boundless with Beyond Infinity: An Expedition to the Outer Limits of Mathematics.