Brian Raftery tells Jim Fleming about karaoke in Japan and the man who invented it.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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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
In this UNCUT interview, Nobel laureate psychologist Daniel Kahneman talks with Steve Paulson about his latest book, Thinking, Fast and Slow.
Carol Dweck is researcher at Stanford University. She says everybody fails, but not everybody fails the right way.
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.
She was born in Somali, settled in the Netherlands and was elected to the Dutch Parliament. She says that her fierce criticism of religion grows out of her own shattering personal experience.
His job for the New York Times is to troll the internet for new and noteworthy words. What do these words tell us about the times we live in?
Charles Wilkins talks of his summer job as a college student when he worked for a large suburban cemetery in Toronto.
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