
Sleeping beauties: the mystery of dormant innovations in nature and culture (Ep 104)
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The Importance of Sleeping Beauty in Our Culture
Art Woods: Good ideas in the arts, science and politics often arise long before they come to be adopted widely. We talk with Andreas about how modern cultural evolution has shifted the context so that this ancient human ability takes on profoundly new importance. It's our own long fuse, our sleeping beauty, that now drives such rapid cultural and technological diversification.
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