Douglas Rushkoff is a well-known media critic and maker of documentaries.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Clay Shirky is an internet expert and author of "Here Comes Everybody." He tells Steve Paulson how wide acceptance of social networking sites has dramatically changed our expectations of the media and even the role of journalism.
Ayelet Waldman talks with Jim Fleming about maternal ambivalence and loving children when you don't like them.
Composer Philip Glass says he was transported by "The Wayfinders" - Wade Davis' celebration of indigenous cultures.
Bruce Watson tells Steve Paulson why Erector Sets were so huge. They reflected the spirit of America’s Industrial Age, and A.C. Gilbert marketed them directly to boys.
Comic novelist David Lodge takes on the old battle between science and the humanities in his latest book, “Thinks.”
Bennett Alan Weinberg talks with Anne Strainchamps about how little we actually know about the vegetable alkaloid we know as caffeine.
We re-examine the myth of Robert Johnson. The most famous blues singer of them all died at the age of 27 after recording only 29 songs. Today he's idolized, but Elijah Wald says that may be for the wrong reasons.
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