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Sep 2024
50m 40s

New Recording! How We Think, by John Dew...

SHARON HANDY
About this episode

Let’s relax with a new recording of a very old episode from a book I had completely forgotten about! Tonight, we learn what constitutes “thinking,” ponder clouds and forks in the road, and consider the similarity between children and scientists. Cutting edge stuff for 1910!

 

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