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Stephen Fry

The Origins Podcast with Lawrence Krauss

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Coddling of the American Life

There's a book in the United States called Coddling of the American Life. Johnathan Haids talked to a very interesting time when suddenly it all changed in terms of the natural age at which children be allowed out to play with their bicycles, with their peers. The world is a dangerous place and you have to be protected from the dangers. But learning to live with them is part of what it means, the joy of growing up and being human. It's really part of... Exactly.

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