Decades ago, Chicago’s Union Stockyards were the source of meat for the country, jobs for the city and ... field trips for Chicago Public School children. Really. (Related to a Curious City story about meatpacking in Chicago.)
Curious City - Little Eddie’s Field Trip: The Union Stock Yards Through the Eyes of an Eighth Grader
Decades ago, Chicago’s Union Stockyards were the source of meat for the country, jobs for the city and ... field trips for Chicago Public School children. Really. (Related to a Curious City story about meatpacking in Chicago.)
Start the Week - Existentialism and Ways of Seeing
On Start the Week Kirsty Wark asks how we make choices about freedom and authenticity - questions that preoccupied Paris intellectuals in the 1930s. Sarah Bakewell looks back at one of the twentieth century's major philosophical movements - existentialism - and the revolutionary thinkers who came to shape it. Sartre and de Beauvoir may have spent their days drinking apricot cocktails in café's but Bakewell believes their ideas are more relevant than ever. The historian Sunil Khilnani reveals the Indian thinkers who didn't just talk about philosophy but lived it, and the photographer Stuart Franklin, famous for the pictures of the man in Tiananmen Square who stopped the tanks, discusses the impulse to record and preserve these moments of action. The art historian Frances Borzello looks at the female artists who chose the freedom to present themselves to the world in self-portraits. Producer: Katy Hickman.
Start the Week - Existentialism and Ways of Seeing
On Start the Week Kirsty Wark asks how we make choices about freedom and authenticity - questions that preoccupied Paris intellectuals in the 1930s. Sarah Bakewell looks back at one of the twentieth century's major philosophical movements - existentialism - and the revolutionary thinkers who came to shape it. Sartre and de Beauvoir may have spent their days drinking apricot cocktails in café's but Bakewell believes their ideas are more relevant than ever. The historian Sunil Khilnani reveals the Indian thinkers who didn't just talk about philosophy but lived it, and the photographer Stuart Franklin, famous for the pictures of the man in Tiananmen Square who stopped the tanks, discusses the impulse to record and preserve these moments of action. The art historian Frances Borzello looks at the female artists who chose the freedom to present themselves to the world in self-portraits. Producer: Katy Hickman.
African Tech Roundup - How Ridiculous Is This? South Africa Is Looking To Ban Netflix!
There are media reports doing the rounds regarding South Africa’s Film and Publication Board (FPB) Chief Operating Officer Sipho Risiba supposedly giving Netflix a two-week ultimatum to comply with its regulatory requirements (whatever those are), or risk facing tough sanctions.
Word is, Risiba recently signed a memorandum of understanding with the Kenya Film Commission in a show of support for Kenya's mission to regulate Netflix’s activities within that country. Despite details around this matter being sketchy, critics have already started accusing the FPB of functioning outside of its mandate, and senselessly seeking to regulate the internet.
In Andile Masuku's conversation with Justin Spratt over a year ago, Justin alluded to the fact that the proliferation of internet usage in Africa would change the face of traditional broadcasting and media distribution— leaving various stakeholders within those industries scrambling to cope. He certainly called it!
In this week’s discussion on the African Tech Round-up, our content editor, Peter Peele, joins Andile to mull over the implications of attempts, or indeed alleged attempts, by government agencies like the FPB to regulate OTT video-on-demand services like Netflix.
Music Credits:
Music by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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Serious Inquiries Only - AS227: Tommentary Time, Easter Edition
Several announcements in this show!!! One you may already have noticed, and another has something to do with this page here. I’m very excited! In this episode I’ve got a ton of Tommenting for you guys. I start with some Easter apologetics and then move onto a terrible flier some church put on my door. It … Continue reading AS227: Tommentary Time, Easter Edition →
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PHPUgly - 3:Dead Air
Show Notes: https://github.com/PHPUgly/podcast/blob/master/shows/ep3.md Topics mcrypt-viking-funeral Your SQL Schema Is Your JSON API Node Drama Last Week Podcast I listen to PHP Roundtable (@PHPRoundtable) Hosted by Sammy Kaye Powers (@SammyK) That Podcast with Beau and Dave (@thatpodcast) Hosted By (@beausimensen) and (@davedevelopment) Loosely Coupled(@_looselycoupled) Hosted by Jeff Carouth (@jcarouth) and Matt Frost (@shrtwhitebldguy) Voices of the ElePHPant (@elephpant) Hosted by Cal Evans (@elephpant) Full Stack (@fullstackradio) Hosted by Adam Wathan (@adamwathan) Laravel Podcast Laravel News Podcast (@laravelnews) Hosted by Eric L. Barnes (@ericlbarnes) and Jack Fruh (@jackfruh) The Laravel Podcast (@laravelnews)@laravelpodcast) Hosted by Matt Stauffer (@taylorOtwell), Taylor Otwell (@taylorOtwell), and Jeffrey Way (@jeffrey_way) Other PHP Podcast /dev/hell PHP Town Hall The Laracasts Snippet Other Non-PHP Podcast Coder Radio The Bike Shed LINUX Unplugged Podcast Talk Python To Me The Ruby Rogues Giant Robots Smashing into other Giant Robots The Linux Action Show
Talk Python To Me - #52: EVE Online: MMO game powered by Python
See the full show notes for this episode on the website at talkpython.fm/52
The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe - The Skeptics Guide #559 – Mar 26 2016
What's the Word: Equilux; News Items: Supernova Shock Wave, Desk Exercise, Angry Suns, Moderate Drinkers and Health; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Shouting Fire; Science or Fiction
Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts - The Contraceptive Mandate
This week, the Supreme Court heard arguments in Zubik v Burwell, the latest challenge to the Affordable Care Act. This time, a group of religious non-profits are challenging the government’s accommodation for employers who don’t want to have anything to do with providing birth control to their workers. Dahlia speaks with Paul Clement, who argued the case for the plaintiffs, and Walter Dellinger, who supports the government's position.
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