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 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?
In 1970, a woman named Vera Rubin pointed a spectrograph at the Andromeda galaxy and found that it was wro...
In 1982, a sixteen-year-old boy in the Midwest sat down and wrote eight episodes of a television series ab...
In the book I describe what I call the Substitution Test. Three questions. What human good was this technology supposed ...
For twenty-eight episodes of this podcast, four cat heads floated through the universe looking for their bodies. Captain...
Aristotle said we become brave by doing brave things. The prairie understood this twenty-four centuries later when it bu...
People sometimes ask writers how long a book takes. The honest answer is always unsatisfying because the honest answer i...
I was ten years old the first time I understood what art does. Not what it says it does. Not what we teach that it does. What it actually does....
Today we celebrate the completion of a project seven years in the making. The third volume of the ASL Linguistics for Practitioners series, Bey...
You have a number.
Let me start with a confession. Classifiers are hard. Not hard in the way vocabulary is hard, where you simply need more...
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