Imaginary Friends, Rosie the Shark, Netflix Nations, Concept Inflation

Imaginary Friends, Rosie the Shark, Netflix Nations, Concept Inflation

Constant Wonder - Season 2022, Episode 126

  • Mar 15, 2019 6:00 am
  • 101:20
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Eileen Kennedy-Moore explains why children develop imaginary friends  and explores the long term effects of this phenomenon. Tom Kapitany tells us the story of the YouTube sensation Rosie the Shark. Ramon Lobato covers the ways that Netflix has changed how we consume television and its continuing impact on entertainment. Spencer Case describes "concept inflation" and how the overuse of words can damage our rhetoric and even the quality of our language.