172. A trans family in the holy land
Everybody is always in a state of transition. All the time, your cells are dying and replacing themselves. Your mind, your emotions, your goals, your sense of self—all of these are shifting from year ...
24 Nov 201842min
171. Michelle Thaller (NASA astronomer) on the multiple dimensions of space and human sexuality
This morning on the way to the school bus, my almost 11 year old son was explaining to me that if you shrunk an elephant down to the size of a mouse, it would shiver, then die, because of its slow mit...
17 Nov 201859min
170. Lynsey Addario (photojournalist) – on art, love, and war
Think about all the images you see in a day. The advertisements. The photos and videos as you search the web or scroll through social media, if you do that. Now think back a century and a half or so t...
10 Nov 201857min
169. Ben Marcus' reality is only slightly askew from our own
A "grow light" for humans that cooks a guy's face. A pharmaceutical mist that puts you in the right mood for mourning the victims of terrorism. The year of All Hell Breaks Loose. The Year of the Senso...
3 Nov 20181h
168. Michael Palin (writer and comic) – So long as there was laughter, I was safe
I recently spent several hours on a transatlantic flight zooming in and out of the interactive map of the Earth on my seat's personal entertainment unit. Exploring tiny islands in the polar North…impo...
27 Okt 201855min
167. Gary Shteyngart (writer) - Reality catches up to dystopian fiction
Gary Shteyngart's new novel Lake Success is the evil doppelgänger of the Simon and Garfunkel song 'America'. In what is surely destined to become one of those legendary novel openings, right up there ...
20 Okt 201854min
166. Manoush Zomorodi (journalist) — How blockchain might save journalism. Maybe.
Why would two intelligent women running a hugely successful podcast at one of the most respected studios in the audio world, quit to start a small journalism company built on blockchain, a technology ...
13 Okt 201851min
165. Man Booker prize winners Olga Tokarczuk (author) and Jennifer Croft (translator) — As fact and fiction blur, America’s finally ready for Olga Tokarczuk
Does it ever strike you as odd that we manage to inhabit two completely different realities at once? On one level, we have common sense and reason that orient us in the world. We make narrative sense ...
6 Okt 201849min
