The episode got picked up by This American Life, giving a signal boost to the important and compelling story that helps explain the thinking behind one of the most brutal practices done in the name of religion.
In the video interview above, which I conducted this week at the Web 2.0 conference where Taylor was a speaker, he explains the thinking behind some of Facebook's recent features, including Timeline, Ticker,and Open Graph.
The director also explained the thinking behind the casting of Jeremy Irons as Alfred, trusty butler to Bruce Wayne, who will played in the upcoming blockbuster by Ben Affleck.
The BBC's Director of Editorial Policy David Jordan explains the thinking behind it, and some of the issues, in this blog post.
But Liz Diller, one of the partners of the firm, explained the thinking: "It has to do with different aspects of cleaning oneself," she said.
The Big Six oil companies (Shell, ExxonMobil, Chevron etc) have come to be known as 'Supermajors', and Matt Kenyon of SWAMP explained the thinking behind the installation as follows: "I spent a lot of time watching video footage of the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill.
Tom Sherrington, headteacher of the King Edward VI grammar school in Chelmsford, Essex, who drafted the proposal, explained the thinking: "I am the head of a highly selective grammar school, but the EBC is not talking to me – and it should.
David Cameron is clever and interested in political ideas, and he is a prime minister brave enough to take his party into coalition who also needs to find a way of explaining the thinking that's guiding the spending review.
"I didn't want to end up doing Now That's What I Call Artificial Intelligence," he says, explaining the thinking behind signing different types of electronic acts, such as Andrew Weatherall's dub outfit Sabres of Paradise and Birmingham psychedelicists Broadcast.
