The invention of mechanical clocks created a kind of artificial time which permits greater efficiency, but cuts human beings off from the rest of nature.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Eric Toso was walking home from a swimming pool when he was bitten on the foot by a rattlesnake. It nearly killed him, but he had a spiritual awakening and found a new appreciation for living in the moment and respecting the Wild.
Benedict Le Vay tells Jim Fleming that many customs still exist in England and are extremely important to the community, even though the reason for them is long forgotten.
Gabe Hudson was a Marine Reservist whose unit served in the Gulf War. Hudson himself didn’t see combat, but based on his friends’ war stories, Hudson has written a book of surreal short stories.
Canadian novelist Sheila Heti talks about her new novel, "How Should a Person Be?" It's fiction, but the characters are real people -- they seem to be Sheila herself and her friends. Some of the dialogue is from actual conversations she transcribed. So what is this thing?
Apostolos Doxiadis tells Judith Strasser about his novel “Uncle Petros and Goldbach’s Conjecture,” in which a man becomes obsessed with solving a mathematical proof.
Daniel Pauly tells Steve Paulson that technological changes in the modern fishery are wiping out vast populations of fish.
Azby Brown talks with Jim Fleming about the Japanese ideal of the very small house – sometimes 500 square feet for a family of four.
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