John Brockman talks smarts, "third culture" intellectuals, and our web-y world in this NEW and UNCUT interview.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Filmmaker Werner Herzog is obsessive about many things, including walking. Listen to find out why Werner walks.
Sy Montgomery tells Steve Paulson about swimming with the pink dolphins of the Amazon. She says they inspire lots of folklore, and are really a species of toothed whale.
three of Aldo Leopold’s children talk about what it was like to grow up as part of a pioneering experiment in prairie restoration. They had no idea what they were doing, but they loved it!
Young activist Roni Krouzman tells Anne Strainchamps what it was like to participate in the demonstrations in Seattle, and how today’s protests resemble street theater.
“Buzkashi Boys” was one of the film shorts nominated for an Oscar this year. This is a coming of age story set in Afghanistan’s national sport, Buzkashi. It's a game of horse polo played with a dead goat instead of a ball.
William Tsutsui tells Anne Strainchamps about the original Godzilla and why he became a cultural icon in Japan.
In Siberia, for centuries, people have lived in cooperation with reindeer. Anthropologist Piers Vitebsky tells some tales of the Reindeer People.
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