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We are presented with a challenge today.

What do you talk about when you don’t have anything to talk about? How do you address an absence of a thing? Or a thing that is not present?

Do you speak of the space around it or the potential that has not been realized within it? Do you ignore it, pretending that there’s nothing amiss?

Is it a mystery that is meant to be investigated with reason or a given that is accepted with faith?

What do you do when you realize that zero is greater than zero? When you realize that silence is not silent...?

When you realize that the vacuum is not quite empty?

Will we stand with Nietzsche, sit with Buddha, or abhor Aristotle?

Empty yourself and gather all your zero point energy to find out, today, on The World via Nothing.

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It’s a common observation that life in the information age has led to a greater ability to digitally connect with our fellow humans across time and space, but, has it also led to increased feelings of solitude and loneliness? Increased feelings of disconnection?

As neat as digital watches, Super Mario and infinite cat videos are, it appears that we need real physical presence to maintain our mental and emotional health. The moment we can’t be near family or friends, a friendly, furry, feathery, or scaly face, may give us that little dose of empathy and intimacy. Through play, care, exercise, comfort, and occasional bouts of wonder, we can form deep and enriching emotional bonds with beings that are sometimes simply stoked to be fed.

Which kind of begs the question once asked by a man named Perry, can we serve the same purpose?

We’ll find out today on The World via Pets.

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Today, we are going to talk about creation, about shared experience, about context, about intention. We’re gonna wrestle with judgment, comparison, objectivity, and subjectivity good taste and bad taste. We will consider the deep cultural significance of the thong song and the gaucheness of Michelangelo’s David.

We will discuss the vast swaths of human creativity from our earliest ancestors to our contemporary automatons. We’re gonna run over well-trodden ground, borrow shamelessly from those who’ve come before and present the product as our own creation and then ask what it means if a machine does the same.

Please put on your painters cap, grab your writer’s pen, pick up your drumsticks, put on your dancing shoes, find your yarn, heat up the kiln, and join us in a dialogue across time and space, today on The World via Art.