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Baltimore native and his 'kluge'

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1:00-2:00 pm Eastern: My guest this hour is Gary Marcus, Baltimore native (and graduate of the city public schools), college professor, unicyclist and author of Kluge: the Haphazard Construction of the Human Mind. Marcus says that the mind is not elegantly designed but rather a "kluge," (rhymes with stooge) a clumsy, cobbled-together contraption, and sheds light on some of the most mysterious aspects of human nature. Marcus has 13 suggestions for how we can adapt and make our kluge function better and maybe even live a happier life. An award-winning professor of psychology at New York University and director of the NYU Center for Child Language, Marcus has written three books about the origins and nature of the human mind. He is also the editor of The Norton Psychology Reader, and the author of numerous science publications in leading journals, such as Science, Nature, Cognition, and Psychological Science.  Listen on-line

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Jan. 8, 2009, marked 30 years for Dan Rodricks' column in The Baltimore Sun. Over three decades, Dan has won numerous regional and several national awards for his reporting and commentary -- in print and on the air. "I've had opportunity to write a column and work in both radio and television, never having to leave my adopted hometown of Baltimore to have those experiences," he says. "I consider myself very fortunate." In addition to writing a twice-weekly column for The Baltimore Sun and his Random Rodricks blog, Dan is currently the host of Midday, on WYPR-FM, National Public Radio in Baltimore. An artful story-teller and social critic, he has observed local, state and national political and cultural trends for three decades, and has a lot to say about almost everything.
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