So your future self’s woken up at home on this weekday in 2055. Time for work, right?
But what kind of work? With America’s old industries sagging, what kind of jobs will we do?
To tackle that question, Steve Paulson sat down with MIT management professor, Erik Brynjolfsson.
The best-selling Turkish novelist Elif Shafak was put on trial ten years ago for "insulting Turkishness". She says the political climate in Turkey is more polarized than ever today, and even riskier for writers. She also believes fiction can help heal divided cultures.
Belquis Ahmadi is Afghan, Sameena Nazir is Pakistani. They tell Steve Paulson why Afghans welcomed the Taliban at first, what happened when they revealed their hidden agenda of oppressing women and controlling education.
Carl Honore talks with Anne Strainchamps about how the Slowness movement got started and how it's developed into a revolution.
Erin McKean talks with Anne Strainchamps about the pleasures of strange words like “squintefego” and “limiculous.”
We hear from orangutan researcher Birute Galdikas who talks about her experience in Borneo observing the lives orangutans and about the deep connections she shared with them.
Kat Duff recommends "Awakening Osiris: The Egyptian Book of the Dead," translated by Normandi Ellis.
Corby Kummer is the food writer for The Atlantic Monthly. He talks with Anne Strainchamps about Flur de Sel, a gourmet sea salt imported from France.
