March 2012
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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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Braille Under Siege As Blind Turn To Smartphones →
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.
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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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A 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...
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March Madness Is The Last Great Pure And Unifying... →
Is that supposed to be a good thing?
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Nathan Englander: Image of a Young Girl Madame... →
There’s a discussion topic here somewhere…
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Image of a Young Girl
Madame Tussauds Unveils Anne Frank Wax Figure
By Kate Katharina Ferguson in Berlin
Madame Tussauds in Berlin has opened a new exhibit featuring a wax figure of Anne Frank, based on the last photographs taken of the…
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