Jonathan Lethem bookmarks "Kafka Was the Rage" by Anatole Broyard.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Information, information everywhere... where's knowledge? David Weinberger from the Berkman Center for Internet and Society says knowledge lies in the links between data and info.
Biologist and science writer David Bainbridge tells Steve Paulson that a prolonged adolescence is unique to humans and one of our greatest evolutionary advantages.
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.
In this extended interview, Buddhist chaplain Steve Spiro talks about meditations on mortality, about setting the scene at a deathbed, and shares more stories of conscious dying and living.
Rebecca Goldstein's Dangerous Idea? Teach children to be rigorous critical thinkers.
Christa Weil talks about eating national dishes like putrefied shark meat and her curious experience eating blow fish in Japan.
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.
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