Gaby Wood is the author of “Edison’s Eve: A Magical History of the Quest for Mechanical Life.” She talks about the many experiments with automata and early mechanical beings.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Ghita Schwarz wrote about "A Case of Boredom" for the February issue of "The Believer" magazine.
Hank Klibanoff and Gene Roberts are the co-authors of "The Race Beat: The Press, The Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation."
Historian Henry Fetter tells Jim Fleming the Yankees have been accused of buying their way to the top but both the team and the game are going strong.
Desperate times may call for desperate measures. But do we really want to put space mirrors into clouds to deflect the sun's rays? Economist Clive Hamilton outlines the promise and perils of geoengineering.
Journalist Greg Critser tells Jim Fleming that Americans never learn moderate food habits. We must accept responsibility for our own caloric intake and expenditure.
Wasn't the digital economy supposed to help all of us gain access to meaningful work? Computers would do the boring jobs while people did the stuff that matters. Instead, we've got workers replaced by robots and taxi drivers losing out to Uber. What went wrong? Media theorist Douglas Rushkoff has a word for it: growth.
Gershom Gorenberg talks with Steve Paulson about the site that the Jews call the Temple Mount which the Muslims revere as Al-Aqsa.
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