It's Monday, June 11th, 2018, and you're listening to Inquiring Minds.

I'm Andrea Viscontas.

Kishore is on break this week.

Each week, we bring you a new in-depth exploration of the space where science, politics, and society collide.

We endeavor to find out what's true, what's left to discover, and why it all matters.

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our listenership. Our regular listeners probably know that we've made some changes in the last

few months and we think

they're really positive.

We've added an up-to-date segment and we're also working on a couple of other projects that

we are excited to bring to you in the next few months.

One theme that we've covered on this show before, but that deserves even more attention,

is virtual reality.

It's hard to underestimate the promise of VR,

and yet very few people have actually experienced it.

Even so, the way that it's going to change the way we think about ourselves could be profound.

In April, there was an issue of The New Yorker,

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