Why You Like What You Like

Why You Like What You LikeThe Matt Townsend Show • Season 5, Episode 130, Segment 3

May 31, 2016 • 45m

Tom Vanderbilt is a contributing Editor at Wired (U.K.), Outside, and Artforum and the author of New York Times Best Seller: Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do. Tom Vanderbilt is also the author of You May Also Like: Taste in an Age of Endless Choice. Tom Vanderbilt explains why we like what we like.

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