Joshua Foer
American freelance journalist; memory champion (born 1982)
Episodes
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#5837: Atlas Obscura: 33,000 Hidden Places and a Boardroom CoupA rotating circle of plants in Argentina, a boiling river 400 miles from any volcano, and the founders who got voted off the board.Main topic -
#5835: What Do You Call the Urge to Know Obscure Things?There's no single name for the pull toward transporter bridges, strange borders, and overlooked infrastructure. The vocabulary exists — it's just s... -
#5262: How the Talmud Outlived Every Book BurningFrom the 1242 Paris burning to Sefaria's AI agents, the chain of transmission was never in the books — it was in the network.