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Series of thought-provoking talks on topics that affect culture and society.

Series of thought-provoking talks in which the speakers air their thinking on the trends, ideas, interests and passions that affect culture and society

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Four Thought: Series 3: Episode 32: Maria Popova: The Architecture of Knowledge

Maria Popova: The Architecture of Knowledge

Episode 32

Episode 32: Maria Popova: The Architecture of Knowledge

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BBC Radio 4 - Four Thought, Series 3, Maria Popova: The Architecture of Knowledge

Maria Popova asks how we can find more information we don't know we want to know.

Maria Popova asks how, in an age with more knowledge available than ever before, we can find the information we do not yet know we want to know.

Maria Popova, Editor of Brainpickings, discusses how, with the world's knowledge more readily available to us than ever before, the fragmentation of our interests is driving us to seek out more and more of what we're already interested in. How, she asks, can we master the architecture of human knowledge in a way that takes advantage of the "Information Age", yet broadens rather than contracts our intellectual and creative horizons, both as individual consumers and as publishers of information? 

Producer: Giles Edwards.

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