Like a classic twist on “Dirty Jobs”, Botton discusses some of the crucial occupations that keep our modern society working but that we never think about. This, Botton argues, leads us to feel a lack of wonder and awe at things that used to bring us great wonderment because we are so disconnected from our world.
Category: Notes
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Anna Mracek Dietrich: A plane you can drive
Dietrich talks about the development, and eventual triumph, of developing a car/plane hybrid. -
Diane Coyle: The Economics of Enough
Coyle argues that because we assume that if we have more we are happier when in reality this practice is, in many ways, robbing us of future happiness to have more money now. -
Jonathan Haidt: The Groupish Gene: Hive psychology and the origins of morality and religion
Haidt developed a hypothesis to explain the human capacity to act in a balance between being selfish and fighting for a common good.
The Groupish Gene: Hive psychology and the origins of morality and religion (RSA)
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Julia Sweeney has “The Talk”
So, when I first read the title I thought to myself, “surely they do not mean ‘The Talk’”. But, yes, it is a humorous discussion of “The Talk” with her young daughter. No worries though, it is clean.