Bob Mankoff, cartoon editor of The New Yorker, recommends E.O. Wilson's "The Meaning of Human Existence."
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Researchers have discovered that cats have their own taste in music. It sounds nothing like that crap you listen to.
Chris Gray is the author of “Cyborg Citizen.” He thinks anyone whose body has been artificially altered by technology is a cyborg. Forget bionic limbs, he means even people who’ve had vaccinations!
Eddie Lenihan tells a story told to him by the foreman of a road construction crew in Ireland.
David Gilmour has written a biography of the great British writer Rudyard Kipling. Gilmour tells Anne Strainchamps that Kipling’s range is unrivaled.
We hear a story from Elna Baker, author of “The New York Regional Mormon Singles Halloween Dance.”
Brian Christian is the author of "The Most Human Human: What Talking with Computers Teaches Us About What It Means to Be Alive." He tells Steve Paulson why he decided to compete in the annual Turing competition, not for the most human computer, but for the "most human human."
Dan Pierotti's wife Judy tells the story of the last few days and minutes of Dan's life.
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