Elegy for a Dead World is a new video game developed by Dejobaan Games, and it's based on some very old-school romantic poets: Shelley, Keats, and Byron. Game designer Ichiro Lambe described the inspiration and execution of a game where players write the story as the game unfolds.
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Daniel Pink talks about the day he almost threw up on Al Gore, and gives examples of the new ways people are finding to work.
Azadeh Moaveni talks about growing up Iranian in America and American in Iran.
Erin Clune is a reporter for Wisconsin Public Radio and a blogger. She visits the hives of urban beekeeper Bob Falk from Madison, Wisconsin.
In his new book “Incognito,” David Eagleman explores what he calls “the secret lives of the brain.”
Bob Jacobson attaches no moral value to working. He has a job, but would rather spend his time loafing, and gives some examples of his past jobs.
According to historian Thomas Laqueur, neither sanitation nor the soul fully explain the rang of rituals we've developed for caring for dead bodies. For him, there is a deeper anthropological truth at work: caring for the dead marks the human transition from nature into culture.
Producer Sara Nics on the story behind this show... how she's tried to come to terms with our narrative selves.
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