Over the last several years, new developments in personal health tracking products have multiplied exponentially. But human interest in measuring and tracking elements of our bodily needs stretches back hundreds of years. Professor Natasha Schüll discusses these current trends and their history, based on research she's done for a forthcoming book called "Keeping Track."
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Charles Monroe-Kane is tired of hearing Baby Boomers wax nostalgic and he tells us why.
The end of money. Really? Are we really on the verge of a coming cashless society?
Brian Turner was an average young American who volunteered for military service in Iraq. At night he wrote poetry by flashlight.
Daniel Levitin reacts to a musical example Anne Strainchamps provides and talks about music and children's brains.
Christian Wiman is a poet and editor of Poetry Magazine. His latest book of poems, Every Riven Thing, is a celebration of life and an exploration of mortality.
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