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Christine Kenneally tells Steve Paulson that Noam Chomsky thought language was hard-wired in the human brain, but later researchers have shown that its development is even more complex.

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Biologist Bill Streever is a cryophile – someone who loves the cold.

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Journalist David Shenk says Alzheimer's an ancient illness afflicting some 5 million Americans, and that the number of cases is sure to rise dramatically as the Baby Boomers age.

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Codebreaker, a new film by Patrick Sammon, tells the story of the brilliant life and tragic death of Alan Turing.  He died at age 41, having revolutionized our world by inventing the first computer programs -- and then computers themselves. 

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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.

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The mash-up is one form of remix culture.

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Carrie Rickey is the film critic for "The Philadelphia Inquirer." She talks to Steve Paulson about how Marshall McLuhan's ideas influenced David Cronenberg's 1983 sci-fi/horror film, as chronicled in her essay, "Videodrome; Make Mine Cronenberg."

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Commentator Aubrey Ralph is bipolar, and says he has been living in a storm for most of his life...

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