Davy Rothbart is the founder and editor of “Found” Magazine. He reads some samples of the notes and lists he’s found and talks about them with Jim Fleming
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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David Brooks coined the word “bobo” to describe the people he calls Bourgeois Bohemians. He says they’re wealthy people who believe they’re motivated by social concerns - they buy “practical” Range Rovers.
So your future self’s woken up at home on this weekday in 2055. Time for work, right?
But what kind of work? With America’s old industries sagging, what kind of jobs will we do?
To tackle that question, Steve Paulson sat down with MIT management professor, Erik Brynjolfsson.
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.
Erik Larson talks about the World’s Columbian Exposition of 1893 and what it meant for Chicago at the turn of the century, and talks about America’s first serial killer who was operating in Chicago at the same time.
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.
"True Detective" creator and writer Nic Pizzolatto recommends "Absalom, Absalom" by William Faulkner.
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