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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Frank Rich tells Jim Fleming that the Broadway musicals of his childhood were all about dysfunctional families and helped him cope with his own difficult family situation.
Astronomers have detected strange light patterrns around a star 1500 light years away. The usual explanations fall short, so Jason Wright says one possibility is a massive structure created by an advanced alien civilization.
Charles Wilkins talks of his summer job as a college student when he worked for a large suburban cemetery in Toronto.
Philosopher Lars Svendsen's Dangerous Idea? We shouldn't fear being lazy.
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.
Antonio Damasio says by understanding the details of what the body is doing when we experience an emotion, science will be able to develop better therapies and interventions.
For weeks, hundreds of thousands of peaceful protestors occupied the State Capitol of Wisconsin. They ate there. They slept there. And they wrote there. Among them was sleep-in activist and blogger, Christie Taylor.
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