He was a big man. Remembering Woody Guthrie on his 100th birthday (Radio Times)
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Short documents can do big work
This pairing is of podcasts that discuss some short documents that have gone on to “make it big”. Here’s the first (longer) podcast, with a humorous take on the Constitution. The U.S. Constitution, as ‘improved’ by writer Kevin Bleyer (Radio Times)…
white blankie
A past student of mine is blogging while doing field work in India.
Instapaper pairing
Heard a happy small developer on Planet Money, talking about the benefits of the App Store marketplace. It really shouldn’t be a surprise that he later showed up on TidBITS. Reflect for a moment, if you will, on the differences…
Touching Tomorrow Today
A previous post got me thinking of Purdue’s old slogan, and that got me googling, and then finding a professor of mine for the two history classes I took at Purdue—my only social science / humanities classes as an undergrad,…
Marketplace bobbles the ball
This trio of items from Friday’s edition of Marketplace that (1) could feed worries about the show’s journalistic integrity, even as they (2) provide an example of handling the bobbled ball with humility. See the first two letters for problems understanding…
Valentine’s Day pairing
Josh Wolfers appearing twice in one weekend. Marriage and the Economist(s) and hash tags for the Fed … a little too far, there, Dr. Wolfers?
A pairing of China stories
The Secret Document That Transformed China What happened to the factories in Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood? Both from Marketplace, a show that enjoys paying attention to China.