Month: March 2019

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50 Things That Made the Modern Economy - Bonus: 30 Animals That Made Us Smarter

Introducing our new podcast about innovation, technology and the animal kingdom. This is the whole of the first episode about how the kingfisher inspired the design of a train. The 500 series Shinkansen, also known as bullet train, is one of the fastest in the world. It is also quiet, but that was not always the case. This is the tale of Japanese engineer Eiji Nakatsu, the kingfisher, an owl, a penguin and biomimicry. www.bbcworldservice.com/30animals
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the memory palace - Episode 139: 1,347 Birds

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Music

  • First up is Requiem from Nico Muhly's score to How to Talk to Girls at Parties.

  • November by Colleen.

  • Edward Hong's arrangement of Sleep from the Smoke and Mirrors Percussion Ensemble.

  • The solo version of Broad Channel by Bing & Ruth

  • Won't Be a Thing to Become by Colin Stetson and Sarah Neufeld

Notes

  • Here's Shane Dubay and Carl Fuldner's study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, including Fuldner's remarkable photographs.
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Read Me a Poem - “Sonnet XVII” by Pablo Neruda

Amanda Holmes reads Pablo Neruda’s poem, “Sonnet XVII,” in Stephen Mitchell’s translation and the original Spanish. Have a suggestion for a poem? Email us: podcast@theamericanscholar.org. If we select your entry, you’ll win a copy of a poetry collection edited by David Lehman.


This episode was produced by Stephanie Bastek and features the song “Canvasback” by Chad Crouch.


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The Nod - Chidi and The Good Place

This week Eric talks with Cord Jefferson, a writer for NBC’s The Good Place, about how Blackness is depicted in the afterlife (Eric’s Chidi Anagonye standom is also discussed). Later, Eric tells Brittany the legendary story of a little-known Black cowboy that’s better than any tall tale.

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Agnus: The Late Antique, Medieval, and Byzantine Podcast - Sorina Higgins on The Inklings and King Arthur

Sorina Higgins talks to Glenn about her edited volume The Inklings and King Arthur, what goes into editing a volume of scholarship, and the state of Inklings studies.

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the memory palace - Episode 138: Sixty Starlings

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Music

  • Blink from Hiroshi Yoshimura

  • Which comes in and out of Bjolukor Tonlisterakoli Reykjanesbaejar's version of Sigur Ros' Hoppipolla.

  • Love Token by Elena Kats-Chernin, performed by Tamara Anna Cislowska

  • And Joanna Brouk playing Maggi's Flute - Lifting Off

Notes

  • There's
    a ton out there about the sixty starlings, the most comprehensive comes
    from Stephen Marche's book, How Shakespeare Changed Everything.

  • I also found Kim Todd's [Tinkering with Eden,](http://%22Tinkering%20With%20Eden:%20A%20Natural%20History%20of%20Exotic%20Species%20in%20America) particularly useful.