Why Knowing Things Still Matters

With any piece of information just a web search away, an argument can be made that less memorization frees our brains up for other tasks. This hour, we’ll talk about why internalizing seemingly unconnected data actually makes us better thinkers with William Poundstone. His new book is called “Head in the Cloud: Why Knowing Things Still Matters When Facts are so Easy to Look Up” (Little, Brown and Co.).


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