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Friday, April 15, 2016
Thursday, April 14, 2016
Episode of the day: "Leanna Harris: Once implicated, never charged"
Listen to "Leanna Harris: Once implicated, never charged"
Podcast: Breakdown (S02 Episode 3)
A child left in a hot car. Accident or Murder?
Have been following the new season of this podcast. It's definitely a disturbing story but with so many unanswered questions and so much speculation. I can't begin to imagine what that baby went through.
Let this tragedy be the catalyst to raise awareness of hot-car deaths.
More information:
Fact sheet - Heat stroke deaths of children in vehicles
Preventing hot car related deaths on Today."The biggest mistake people make is thinking it can't happen to them," Janette Fennell says.
Podcast: Breakdown (S02 Episode 3)
A child left in a hot car. Accident or Murder?
Have been following the new season of this podcast. It's definitely a disturbing story but with so many unanswered questions and so much speculation. I can't begin to imagine what that baby went through.
Let this tragedy be the catalyst to raise awareness of hot-car deaths.
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| Harris Family (image: from Facebook) |
Fact sheet - Heat stroke deaths of children in vehicles
Preventing hot car related deaths on Today."The biggest mistake people make is thinking it can't happen to them," Janette Fennell says.
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| image: Jan Null, Department of Meteorology and Climate Science San Jose University |
Wednesday, April 13, 2016
Episode of the day: "Gary Oldman"
Listen to "Gary Oldman"
Podcast: Nerdist (Episode 798)
Great interview with Gary Oldman, the human being. I especially aplaude Chris' job in conducting the interview so masterfully.
Podcast summary - "Gary Oldman chats with Chris about the highs and lows of being an actor, how he does not want to act in films he directs, and being reunited with Kevin Costner for their new film Criminal. He also talks about the interesting experience playing Lee Harvey Oswald in JFK, how sobriety has affected his career, and his friendship with the late David Bowie."
More information:
Gary Oldman Bio on IMDb
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| Gary Oldman in 2014 (image: Gage Skidmore) |
Tuesday, April 12, 2016
Episode of the day: "For Your Reconsideration"
Listen to "For Your Reconsideration"
Podcast: This American Life (Episode 584)
I swear that I try to branch out and listen to other podcasts in order to publish a wide variety here. But even though I listen to many podcasts, I choose today yet another This American Life episode!
This episode was absolutely incredible. An interesting story of a bogus social science study. A bit ironic that a new study, however, reveals some of the same findings the retracted study did.
And then, the most amazing story from the podcast "Beautiful Stories by Anonymous People", which is a new podcast I intend to follow closely. This story makes you think that so often we get trapped in our own inertia despite the opportunities presented around us. We have plans, dreams, ambitions, but inertia takes over and fear prevails. Sometimes we would be better off using Nike's philosophy and Just Do It!
More information:
Los Angeles LGBT Center
Michael LaCour's scandal in The New York Times and The New Yorker
New study "Durably reducing transphobia: A field experiment on door-to-door canvassing" published in Science.
Listen to "Ron Paul's Baby"
Podcast: This American Life (Episode 584)
I swear that I try to branch out and listen to other podcasts in order to publish a wide variety here. But even though I listen to many podcasts, I choose today yet another This American Life episode!
This episode was absolutely incredible. An interesting story of a bogus social science study. A bit ironic that a new study, however, reveals some of the same findings the retracted study did.
And then, the most amazing story from the podcast "Beautiful Stories by Anonymous People", which is a new podcast I intend to follow closely. This story makes you think that so often we get trapped in our own inertia despite the opportunities presented around us. We have plans, dreams, ambitions, but inertia takes over and fear prevails. Sometimes we would be better off using Nike's philosophy and Just Do It!
More information:
Los Angeles LGBT Center
Michael LaCour's scandal in The New York Times and The New Yorker
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| Donald Green and Michael LaCour (image from Michael LaCour's facebook page) |
Listen to "Ron Paul's Baby"
Monday, April 11, 2016
Episode of the day: "The Gun That Wouldn't Shoot"
Listen to "The Gun That Wouldn't Shoot"
Podcast: Planet Money (Episode 694)
"Imagine a safer kind of gun. Imagine a company with a plan to build it. Imagine customers ready to buy it. Imagine what could go wrong. A whole lot."
By itself or even as a transition to more strict gun laws, sounds like a great idea! But is it really?
More information:
Donald Zhilka on Newsweek
Read this interesting article on Smart Guns in Fortune Magazine
Podcast: Planet Money (Episode 694)
"Imagine a safer kind of gun. Imagine a company with a plan to build it. Imagine customers ready to buy it. Imagine what could go wrong. A whole lot."
By itself or even as a transition to more strict gun laws, sounds like a great idea! But is it really?
More information:
Donald Zhilka on Newsweek
Read this interesting article on Smart Guns in Fortune Magazine
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| Smart gun. (image: Joerg Koch, AFP/Getty Images) |
Saturday, April 9, 2016
Episode of the day: "Same Bed, Different Dreams"
Listen to: "Same Bed, Different Dreams"
Podcast: This American Life (Episode 556)
This was a rebroadcasted episode worth listening just for the unbelievable story of the kidnap of two South Korean celebrities by Kim Jong-Il.
Podcast's summary: "Stories of people who are tied together, but imagine radically different futures. In one case, a movie star and her ex-husband plot against Kim Jong-Il. In another, a woman stalks her doppleganger. And sometimes, one bed is the basis for an entire relationship, even for a man who almost never sees the person who shares his bed."
More information:
The book Kim Jong-Il Production on Amazon by Paul Fischer.
Podcast: This American Life (Episode 556)
This was a rebroadcasted episode worth listening just for the unbelievable story of the kidnap of two South Korean celebrities by Kim Jong-Il.
Podcast's summary: "Stories of people who are tied together, but imagine radically different futures. In one case, a movie star and her ex-husband plot against Kim Jong-Il. In another, a woman stalks her doppleganger. And sometimes, one bed is the basis for an entire relationship, even for a man who almost never sees the person who shares his bed."
More information:
The book Kim Jong-Il Production on Amazon by Paul Fischer.
Friday, April 8, 2016
Episode of the day: "Soul City"
Listen to "Soul City"
Podcast: 99% Invisible (Episode 207)
A failed project for a city exclusively for African-Americans. Would that really help the racial divide?
A failed project for a city exclusively for African-Americans. Would that really help the racial divide?
As stated in the podcast's website: "In the late 1960s, a civil rights leader named Floyd B. McKissick, at one time the head of CORE (the Congress on Racial Equality) proposed an idea for a new town. He would call this town Soul City and it would be a place built for and by black people—a land of black opportunity in rural North Carolina."
More information:
Interesting article about Soul City in the Citylab
More information:
Interesting article about Soul City in the Citylab
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| Sign marking the entrance to Soul City (image: Tijuana Brass) |
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