The Sophisticates #22
This week:
- The Kindle: A Judgment Shield (1:00)
- When Should You Listen to Drunk People? (11:46)
- Phoning It In (20:50)
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The Sophisticates #21
This week:
- Adapting Books into Books (1:14)
- Being Blind in a Paperless World (13:36)
- The Future of Music (23:57)
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Rihanna is often described as a ‘manufactured’ pop star, because she doesn’t write her songs, but neither did Sinatra or Elvis. She embodies a song in the way an actor inhabits a role—and no one expects the actor to write the script.
- John Seabrook, “The Song Machine,” The New Yorker, March 26, 2012
This week, we’ll be discussing what effects technology and the push for a “paperless world” could have on the blind. Here’s a great NPR piece to get you thinking! Check back Wednesday for the new episode.
The Sophisticates #20
This week:
- Ryan’s Cross-Country Train Trip (1:06)
- The Flawed System of March Madness(12:51)
- Barbershop Intimidation Factor (24:25)
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TweetA Classic 1950s Propaganda Film Makes the Case for Superhighways
“This is the American dream of freedom on wheels. An automotive age, traveling on time-saving super highways,” begins the narrator of Give Yourself the Green Light, a 1954 film funded by General Motors. “But we’re running out of roads! We didn’t dream big enough,” he explains. This first half of the film outlines the problem posed by the growing number of cars and commuters, and includes fascinating footage of 1950s life on wheels — classic cars, a school bus, the main street of a small town, etc. Watch the film in its entirety at the Prelinger Archive.
(via theatlantic)
