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 One fifth of all new relationships today begin online.  That’s a lot of people trusting their hearts to the algorithms of digital matchmakers.

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What makes a happy workplace? It's pretty clear that most of us want more than just a paycheck. We walso want to do something we care about. The quest to build a corporate culture around meaningful work is what led Chip Conley to the pioneering psychologist Abraham Maslow and his "hierarchy of needs."  At the bottom of Maslow's pyramid are baisc survival needs like food and shelter. And at the top is "self-actualization," where people reach their full potential. So what would a self-actualizing company look like?

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Poet Anna Rabinowitz found a shoe box full of old letters and photos of family and friends killed in the Holocaust.  She wrote the poem "Darkling" to feature their voices.   We also hear excerpts from the opera "Darkling."

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Al Franken and Katherine Lanpher present "The Audio Crawl."

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Do you think your memory is like a video camera, storing every experience you've ever had?  Historian Alison Winter says we tend to use technology metaphors to think about memory. 

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Anne Matthews tells Anne Strainchamps that there’s been an explosion of wildlife in America’s towns and cities.

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"I’m a different person when I’m in Nepal..." Jeffrey Potter has been documenting life in a village in eastern Nepal for 20 years. During a trip there in 2000, he was present for the death of a young man named Harka. In this story, he talks about how that experience that was both profound and unexplainable.

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Philosopher Alva Noe says it's a mistake to regard consciousness as strictly a product of our brain.  He says consciousness is something we do.

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