{"version":"1.0","type":"link","title":"Michael Chorost - Newikis","description":"Michael Chorost (born December 26, 1964) is an American book author, essayist, and public speaker. Born with severe loss of hearing due to rubella, his hearing was partially restored with a cochlear implant in 2001 and he had his other ear implanted in 2007.","provider_name":"Newikis","provider_url":"https://newikis.com","cache_age":86400,"thumbnail_url":"https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ef/2014_June_Astrobiology_and_Theology_seminer_08.JPG/1280px-2014_June_Astrobiology_and_Theology_seminer_08.JPG","thumbnail_width":1280,"thumbnail_height":851}