His job for the New York Times is to troll the internet for new and noteworthy words. What do these words tell us about the times we live in?
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Charles Wilkins talks of his summer job as a college student when he worked for a large suburban cemetery in Toronto.
Blanche Barton is the former High Priestess of the Church of Satan. She tells Steve Paulson that Satanists are outsiders who do not worship Satan.
Daniel Libeskind is the architect whose design was chosen to the master-plan for the new World Trade Center site.
Where's the line between craft, art and design? The head of research at London's Victoria and Albert Museum says, at heart, craft is about "showing your commitment to an idea."
Philosopher David Chalmers is famous for outlining the "hard problem of consciousness." He says the materialist framework of science will never be able to explain subjective experience.
You can listen to the EXTENDED interview - and find the transcript - here.
Christine Wicker tells Anne Strainchamps about some of the witches, elves, vampires and other oddities she met.
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