The Bobby Fisher Clip

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There is aa eclip of bobby fisher from the dick cavot show. Dick cavott wasah, was a tako host in the seventies. I think he went into some very strange places but, ah, at one point. There's another puzzle i called the 15 puzzle, and you've probably seen it. And because i know han i'm talking obut go ahead. Sorry.

How much of life can be solved by algorithms, and how much just can't be solved? Listen as A.J. Jacobs, author of The Puzzler, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the lessons he learned from solving every kind of puzzle imaginable, including the biggest stumper of all: what it really means to be a human being.