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We surprise some of the world's brightest minds with ideas they're not at all prepared to discuss. With host Jason Gots and special guests Neil Gaiman, Alan Alda, Salman Rushdie, Mary-Louise Parker, Richard Dawkins, Margaret Atwood, Sam Harris, Daniel Dennett, Saul Williams, Henry Rollins, Bill Nye, George Takei, Maria Popova, and many more . . . You've got 10 minutes with Einstein. What do you talk about? Black holes? Time travel? Why not gambling? The Art of War? Contemporary parenting? So ...
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Musicians, Michael Stephenson & Jim Gilliam
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Listen in to this BoCo Town episode and learn about the saxophone and two musicians that have mastered it and many instruments. Michael Stephenson and Jim Gilliam join us on stage at the Historic Turnage Theatre to share their musical journeys, fun facts about the instruments they play and how they came together at Pitt Community College to keep th…
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Scott Campbell's Christmas in The Original Washington
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Scott Campbell is well known and loved for his outgoing personality in his role here in Washington, NC, as a realtor, a talented performer, and avid supporter of the arts. In this episode, Steve Barnes and Debra Torrence chat with Scott to learn about how Scott’s waterway to Washington and his love of the area. Scott drops a teaser of his upcoming …
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Washington NC Tourism Development Authority with Erin Ruyle
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Washington Tourism Development Authority (WTDA) Executive Director, Erin Ruyle, along with her staff, Paula Stephenson and Gabrielle Whitlock, provide an update on tourism in recent turbulent months. Rather than reporting that Washington's tourism has been dramatically down, Erin provides a few surprising statistics that can be attributed to the re…
James Jones discusses his upcoming new movie Support the show (https://www.artsofthepamlico.org/support/)By Debra Torrence, Steve Barnes, Roland Wyman
Emily Soeken, Arts of the Pamlico's East Carolina University's (ECU) State Employees Credit Union Public Fellows Intern joins BoCo Town Hosts, Torrence and Barnes. Soeken is currently a Junior in Theatre Education at ECU. Listen in as she shares how she was introduced to historical places, who gave her the theatre bug -- on and off stage -- and wha…
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AOP's Oral History project with NC Folklife Institute
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Before podcasts, oral storytelling around a campfire, on a porch, at a reunion threaded together lives in a community. Guest Sarah Bryan was drawn to oral storytelling from an early age, sitting at the feet of her elders taking it all in. Sarah leads the NC Folklife Institute and will be leading a research project supported by the NC Humanities Cou…
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Shannon Reising, Le Moulin Rouge de Danse - Wayne Stoeckert, Singer/Song Writer
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Shannon Resing and Wayne Stoeckert are two local artists who are woven into the fabric of what our community experiences in the arts routinely. Shannon is a trained dancer and owner of Moulin Rouge de Danse. Her team offers an array of classes for youth and adults in the red barn with recitals at the Turnage Theatre. Wayne has a long history of pla…
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Paloma Capanna, Writer - Timothy Bivans, Musician
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Paloma Capanna joins us to share her journey into the writing world. An attorney practicing and living in Beaufort, NC, Capanna now has two professions having authored poems, a collection of essays entitled Nearly Fifty and a recently completed first — a political thriller titled Inconclusive. Listen in and make your own conclusions about this tale…
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Gary Duncan, Scientist/Artist - Nannette Garrett, Singer/Songwriter
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Gary Duncan joined us on BoCo Town to share his journey from neuro scientist to clothing designer. A musician too, Gary brings microscopic images to life in vivid colors and transfers them on to cloth for uniquely designed women's clothing and COVID19 masks. Nanette Garrett of the band Garrett is an award winning singer, musician, talented song wri…
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Billy Vaughn, All About Kites - Al Powell, IBX STEM Center
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Join us for our 10th BoCo Town episode and take flight - really! Bily Vaughn shares his love of flight and the background on how the flexible wing, Rogallo Wing, was created that led to hang gliding and numerous innovations. Al Powell shares the first drone program for youth in Beaufort County, a partnership with Microsoft and how you can get invol…
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Ray Midgett, Historian - Ruth Wyand, Musician
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Ray Midgett Ray joins us to share his passion for local maritime history. Listen in as Ray shares a bit of history about the river port Washington used to be, how a deadly twist of fate for President Lincoln has ties to the region, and the work of a local group preserving Washington’s history, the Historic Port of Washington, is bringing history to…
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[SPECIAL] Clever Creature with Jason Gots - Episode 1: DESERT
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NOTE: This is a special guest episode of Jason's new podcast Clever Creature. Please subscribe on iTunes, Spotify, Stitcher, or wherever you get your podcasts! The Moleskine is open, the page is staring back accusingly/ Like 'come on, Punk, what makes you think you possibly could fill the likes of me? Reflections on a big creative leap of faith: th…
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Ginger Gehres, Artist - Bob Daw, Musician
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Ginger Gehres, Artist Artist, Ginger Gehres, has always considered her soul to be that of a naturalist and conservationist. Running the gamut from wildlife, landscapes, and florals… they all hold a fascination for her. She carries a deep desire to show others their individual beauty. Join us as we talk with visual bard and award wining artist Ginge…
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Amber Flora Thomas, Poet - Brian Burke, Musician
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Amber Flora Thomas, a writer and poet, professor and more joined us today for BoCo Town. The author of Eye of Water: Poems which was selected by Harryette Mullen as the winner of the 2004 Cave Canem Poetry Prize. Her other books include, The Rabbits Could Sing: Poems (University of Alaska Press, 2012) and Red Channel in the Rupture: Poems (Red Hen …
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Lou Hunley, BHM Library - Erin Staebell, AOP
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Lou Hunley is the Children's Librarian at BHM Library. Headquartered in Washington, NC the regional library serves Beaufort, Hyde and MArtin Counties, including Ocracoke Island. Lou coordinates and supports children's programming across the region. Lou shares what locals can find online through the library system, programs they have been working on…
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Jenny Mastin on Ceramic Art - Jay Costello, Singer, Musician
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Jenny Mastin is a Ceramic Artist. Jenny grew up in the area and attended East Carolina University in fiber arts. She took her education to the mountains of NC and over the past 30-years has taught adults and students of varying ages. Her artistic passion is in sculpture and slab work depicting human and animal characteristics, often mixing in other…
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Part 2 - BOCO Town Interviews Local Artist Chuck Phillips
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BOCO Town's podcast continues with part 2. We talked with Chuck Phillips, singer, songwriter. We all enjoy hearing Chuck perform and he didn't let us down. In this episode, Chuck plays "Nobody Told Me" by John Lennon, along with "Ship Goes Down" which is one of his own songs and one of our favorites. Support the show (https://www.artsofthepamlico.o…
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Part 1 - BOCO Town Discusses Video Documentaries with Clay Johnson
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BOCO Town podcast is alive and well! For now, we don't have the pleasure of in person interviews, so we're interviewing online. Click to listen to part 1, where we speak with Clay Johnson, who heads the documentary division of WRAL. We enjoyed our (virtual) time with Clay and we're sure you will too! Support the show (https://www.artsofthepamlico.o…
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235. Neil Gaiman (Jason Plays Favorites #7) – and then it gets darker
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[From February through March 22, 2020 (his last day hosting Think Again) Jason will be revisiting favorite past episodes. Jason's new show, starting May 12th, is Clever Creature with Jason Gots.] Adult life, with all its schedules and responsibilities, can turn into a kind of library of locked boxes. The ones we open every day sit on a shelf at eye…
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BOCO Town with Linda Boyer and Pam Anderson
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Linda Boyer is chair of Beaufort County Traditional Music Association (BCTMA) and a long time member of Arts of the Pamlico (artsofthepamlico.org) Executive Board. We talk to Linda about the many BCTMA activities she's involved in and then hear her perform. Pam Anderson is a newcomer to community theater at the Historic Turnage Theatre and she tell…
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234. Robert MacFarlane (Jason Plays Favorites #7) – deep time rising
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[From February through March 22, 2020 (his last day hosting Think Again) Jason will be revisiting favorite past episodes. Jason's new show, starting May 12th, is Clever Creature with Jason Gots.] I’m underground as I write this, one day before taping the conversation you’re about to hear, speeding through New York City subway tunnels that aren’t al…
Jeffery Phipps discusses his deep history with Arts of the Pamlico, arts council for Beaufort County, North Carolina Visit artsofthepamlico.org to learn more about the amazing arts, entertainment, and events at the Historic Turnage Theatre and throughout our region. Support the show (https://www.artsofthepamlico.org/support/)…
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233. Terry Gilliam (Jason Plays Favorites #5) – the impossible dream
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[From February through March 22, 2020 (his last day hosting Think Again) Jason will be revisiting favorite past episodes. Jason's new show, starting May 12th, is Clever Creature with Jason Gots.] -- Faith in anything is its own special form of madness. It’s a challenge to entropy, and entropy takes no challenge lightly. If there’s any better metaph…
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232. Anaïs Mitchell (Jason Plays Favorites #4) – sometimes the god speaks through you
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[From February through March 22, 2020 (his last day hosting Think Again) Jason will be revisiting favorite past episodes. Jason's new show, starting May 12th, is Clever Creature with Jason Gots.] -- Among other things, music can be medicine. Like a vaccine, it sometimes works by giving your body a little taste of the disease. Other times, of course…
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231. Marlon James (Jason Plays Favorites #3) – don't get too comfortable
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[From February through March 22, 2020 (his last day hosting Think Again) Jason will be revisiting favorite past episodes. Jason's new show, starting May 12th, is Clever Creature with Jason Gots.] -- At this point, it’s very rare to read something and find myself thinking: This is something new. This is unlike anything I’ve ever read before. It does…
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230. Eve Ensler (Jason Plays Favorites #2) – no way out but through
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[From February through March 22, 2020 (his last day hosting Think Again) Jason will be revisiting favorite past episodes. Jason's new show, starting May 12th, is Clever Creature with Jason Gots.] -- Note: I feel I should let listeners know that this episode of Think Again is about surviving and thriving in the face of unspeakable trauma and sexual …
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229. David Sedaris (Jason Plays Favorites #1) – Sir David of the Spotless Roadways
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[From February through March 22, 2020 (his last day hosting Think Again) Jason will be revisiting favorite past episodes. Jason's new show, starting May 12th, is Clever Creature with Jason Gots.] Life is full of horrible things. I dare you to deny it. Things like death, sickness, and alcoholism. And did I mention death, which lies in wait for us al…
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228. Sharon Salzberg (meditation and mindfulness teacher) – on balance
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Since 1976, Sharon Salzberg has been sharing ancient meditation and mindfulness practices in a voice the contemporary West can understand. Her warm, funny, down-to-earth books, dharma talks, and guided meditations have helped struggling meditators worldwide establish a strong practice and reduce the suffering in their lives. In this episode master …
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227. Roz Chast and Patricia Marx (cartoons, words, ukuleles) – The Beatles stole everything from us
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Thelma and Louise, Ponch and John, Pancho and Lefty, Quixote and Sancho Panza, Marx and Engels, Marx and Chast…history and literature are full of magical buddy stories. Every now and then, for reasons no one can explain, Two people come together and produce something greater, or at least very different, from the sum of their parts. I’m here today w…
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226. Joseph Goldstein (dharma teacher) – doubt comes masquerading as wisdom
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Freedom. Everyone wants it, but knowing where to look for it is another matter. And to make matters worse, the world is full of things that feel like freedom but might just get us more tangled up in everything we’re trying to escape. How much freedom can money buy? How much money? How free are you on a tropical vacation? Would uploading your consci…
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225. Jad Abumrad (Radiolab, Dolly Parton's America) – American Multiverse
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If you’d told me a couple months ago that a podcast about Dolly Parton could move me deeply and raise all kinds of questions that go straight to the wounded heart of America today, I guess I would have been skeptical to say the least. But that skepticism might be exactly the point. America is an image factory. Country music. Rock and Roll. New York…
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224. Norman Fischer (zen priest, poet) – the only way out of the catastrophe we’re in
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The other day on social media a friend asked what the heck is up with this Mr. Rogers revival. Why does everyone suddenly love this guy so much? Moments before, I had been listening to a new podcast about Dolly Parton, and her weird, almost saintlike ability to bring people together across cultural divides. In a moment of deep mistrust and cynicism…
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223. Karen Armstrong (theologian) – the art of getting outside of yourself
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I’ve spent more of my life than most people I know immersed by choice in what my guest today would call “scripture”. I was never much of a Roman Catholic, in spite of being dragged weekly to church until I was about 13 and could no longer be dragged, and, in my boredom, sometimes believing I saw the statue of Jesus moving on the cross. But in late …
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222. Deborah Levy (writer) – it's those thoughts that are slightly awkward that need an airing
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While reading Deborah Levy’s novel THE MAN WHO SAW EVERYTHING and her recent “working autobiography” THE COST OF LIVING I often found myself pausing and kind of sinking into a passage I’d just read. Going back and rereading it not because my attention had wandered nor exactly to unpack an idea but because I felt the need to experience it over again…
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221. Yancey Strickler (Kickstarter co-founder) – you, me, us: now and in the future
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The phrase “common sense” can be misleading. The way we use it in casual conversation, it means something like “that which is obvious to any sensible person, of course”. It’s like what philosopher Daniel Dennett says about the word “surely”. Surely we can all agree that it’s just an innocent word, right? Surely I’m not manipulating you by starting …
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220. Elif Shafak (writer) – the cemetery of the companionless
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“Maybe the opposite of goodness is not evil. Maybe the opposite of goodness is, in fact, numbness.” There are so many questions we never ask. So many assumptions we make every second of every day because our minds and our lives are sealed off from one another, accessible only through time, patience, and the slow work of trust—all of which are often…
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219. Reginald Dwayne Betts (poet) – nothing to resurrect after prison
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Some experiences change you so completely that you’re left with a choice: either spend your life running from them or spend your life turning them over in memory, trying to find new ways in, through, and out the other side. The power of the impulse to explain or somehow articulate these experiences is inversely proportionate to other people’s abili…
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218. Bill Bryson (writer) – the most extraordinary machine
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Do you have a body? I do, but I was mostly unaware of this fact until somewhere in my mid-30s, when my life strategy of living like a bourbon-loving brain-in-a-vat became increasingly untenable. Since then, I’ve come to understand something that might have been obvious to you all along. The body’s not just a convenient support system for coming up …
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217. Ibram X. Kendi (author, activist) – Antiracism 101
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I grew up in the almost entirely white suburbs of 1980’s Bethesda, Maryland thinking of myself and my world as 100% not racist. It’s hard to notice what’s missing: for example pretty much any black or brown people anywhere I went except on vacation, in spite of the fact that we were right next to Washington DC. At some point in middle school I lear…
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216. Gail Collins (NY Times columnist) – The brief social media life of Glam-ma
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In 1972, the year I was born, there was apparently a famous TV ad for Geritol. My guest today describes it thus: “…a husband spoke to the camera while his wife draped herself over his shoulder, smiling like something between a model and the brainwashed resident of a creepy commune…”My wife’s incredible. She took care of the baby all day, cooked a g…
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215. Cambridge Analytica whistleblower Christopher Wylie: the cognitive segregation of America
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I don’t even know where to begin with this one. You’ve probably heard of Cambridge Analytica. Maybe you know they’re a company that did some nefarious things involving facebook and the 2016 US presidential elections. If you’re anything like me, you don’t know the half of it. If you get through this episode without wanting to move to a remote hut in…
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214. Liz Plank (journalist) – men, masculinity, and the unfinished conversation
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In the past half century or so feminism has had its hands plenty full dealing with the abuse and inequality women suffer at the hands of horribly behaved men and the systems they build. Too full to worry much about what the hell is going on inside those men and why. And there are powerful arguments to be made for the fact that it is not women’s res…
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213. Catherine Wilson (philosopher) – the Epicurean cure for what ails ya
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If the word ‘epicurean’ brings to mind a porcine man in a toga reclining on a velvet couch and dropping fat juicy grapes into his open mouth, one by one, you are not alone. But this caricature, probably the descendent of some ancient propaganda by rival philosophers, tells us very little in fact about Epicureanism - the worldview of the 4th century…
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212. Downton Abbey film director Michael Engler – the best idea in the room
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Like too many of us, I hated history classes throughout my school career, and only realized as an adult that there are few things more interesting to ponder than the ways people lived and thought in different times and places than my own. After all, we’re all stuck in our own time, limited by our culture, consciousness, and whatever knowledge we ma…
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211. Etgar Keret (writer) – a tunnel dug under the prison floor
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“A conversation is like a tunnel dug under the prison floor that you—patiently and painstakingly—scoop out with a spoon. It has one purpose: to get you away from where you are right now.” That is from the very, very weird tale Car Concentrate from Israeli writer Etgar Keret’s wonderful new collection of short stories called FLY ALREADY. It’s not a …
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210. one night in Istanbul, with chef Musa Dağdeviren
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There’s a pattern that happens with any new thing. First it’s scary, then you settle in to a rhythm, then you hit your stride, then you get too attached to things being the way they are. For a while there I thought I could only record an episode of this show sitting in a particular chair facing a particular direction. When that kind of thing happen…
When I was a teenager and music was still on cassettes, a mixtape was an act of love. The selection and sequence of songs were a kind of message to the listener that left plenty of space for their own thoughts and feelings. Back in June Think Again hit its fourth year and its 200th show and it feels like the right time to take a step back and revis…
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208. Antonio Damasio (biologist) – this incredibly rich machinery
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Quick question. Answer without thinking too hard. Ready? Where is your mind? What is your mind? Ok, Raise your hand if you thought of your brain. If you did, you’re in good company. For centuries, Western science, culture, and language has been obsessed with the head as the center of thought and the body as the center of feeling. This split can get…
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207. Lisa Brennan-Jobs (writer) – on growing up without, with, and in spite of her dad
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The first computer I ever had was the first Apple Macintosh, back in the mid 80’s. I can still remember the sense of friendly reassurance from that smiling little icon that popped up on the screen when you turned it on—a cute, tiny computer smiling back at you. This device, it suggested, knew you. Understood you. Was someone you could trust. Since …
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206. Jenny Odell (artist) – attention as an act of resistance
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When I think of my childhood home in Bethesda, Maryland, depending on what kind of mood I’m in, I think either of the mall or of the woods. Although there were some fun moments looking at the inappropriate novelty items like at Spencer Gifts, such as edible underwear, the mall in my memory is a symbol of suburban anomie and alienation. A place, as …
