Human Meme
The Human Meme podcast examines what separates human consciousness from mere biological existence. Each episode investigates the inherited behaviors, cultural transmissions, and cognitive patterns that replicate across generations, shaping how we think, grieve, speak, and remember. David Boles, a New York City writer, publisher, and teacher, hosts these conversations as mindfulness with teeth: no production music, no easy comfort, only the direct inquiry into what makes us recognizably human. Since 2016, the podcast has asked why we weep emotional tears, how language emerged from gesture, and whether memory constructs or reveals the self. The irrevocable aesthetic is the commitment to answers that, once understood, cannot be unknown. Be a Human Meme.
Episodes
There was a moment in your life when you found out.
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I keep walking past the same stretch of river. Most days I cross over it. Sometimes I stop. There is a pla...
Paris, August nineteenth, eighteen thirty-nine. François Arago, perpetual secretary of the Académie des Sc...
I want to start with four seconds.
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Shakespeare wrote the apothecary twenty lines and then disappeared him from the text.
We talked once on this podcast about the pause before a lie. That episode, "Pause Before the Lie," examine...
I was seven years old, sitting on red shag carpeting in Nebraska, in front of a woo...
In the fall of 1984, I was sitting in a darkened lecture hall at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, watch...
Three seconds. That is all it takes.
Twenty-one violinists walked into a hotel room in Indianapolis in 2010. They were experienced soloists, pe...
There are forty-one Broadway theatres. That number has been effectively frozen for ...
I want to talk about a face.
I want you to think about the last time you encountered an achievement that seemed too large for the perso...
There is a street in Jersey City called Baldwin Avenue.
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I want to tell you about something I overheard in a cafe in Newark, New Jersey, abo...
The book is twenty-one letters. I use the word "letter" loosely. A surgical dictati...
I want to talk about a sentence. A very specific kind of sentence. The kind of sentence you hear every day...
When an actor walks onto a stage and says the words a playwright has written, whose body is it?
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