The invention of mechanical clocks created a kind of artificial time which permits greater efficiency, but cuts human beings off from the rest of nature.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Why do certain foods fall out of favor? Aaron Bobrow-Strain tracked the rise and fall of white bread for a book on the subject. He believes our anxieties about food often reflect larger social questions.
Ben Folds is fascinated with the human voice, especially in the genre of A Cappella music.
Ever heard of gold-farming? Cory Doctorow talks about some ways people get ahead in multi-player video games.
A young man named Black Nature is one of the Sierra Leone Refugee All-Stars. He tells how the group formed while fleeing from the brutality and bloodshed of their country's civil war.
Journalist Elizabeth Kolbert's Dangerous Idea: human vices are just as important as human virtues in shaping evolution.
Apostolos Doxiadis tells Judith Strasser about his novel “Uncle Petros and Goldbach’s Conjecture,” in which a man becomes obsessed with solving a mathematical proof.
Daniel Pinchbeck is the heir to Timothy Leary: he explores and advocates the use of psychedelic drugs.
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