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51. What Separates Humans From Other Animals?

No Stupid Questions

CHAPTER

The Importance of Concentration and Attention

Jonathan May: Sometimes it's harmful or hindrance anyway to have something to look at. Stephen uses octopuses as the plural of octopus, but Angela tells him that the correct term is octopi. He quotes French author and poet Alphonse de la Martine about the future of meat-eating. And Angela talks about a Tolstoy book that she's enjoying called A Calendar of Days.

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