What's the Difference Between the Old and the New Testament?

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Ted Chang is the author of a new book about Native American culture. He talks to tribes who are trying to unify by looking at their ancestors. The Europeans didn't want to deal with all these separate tribes as independent units so they wanted to unify them in one way or another. In this story Ted and his tribe get into an argument over which ancestor should be chosen for unification.

Memory is highly selective and often inaccurate. But what if we had an easily searchable video record of all our experiences and interactions? How would that affect our relationships? What would it reveal about our characters and our sense of who we are? Is there a kind of truth that can’t be determined by perfect objectivity? David and Tamler dive deep into Ted Chiang’s amazingly rich and poignant short story “The Truth of Fact, the Truth of Feeling” which explores how new technologies shape individual and group identities.

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