Month: February 2017

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the memory palace - Episode 105: Amok

The Memory Palace is a proud member of Radiotopia, from PRX, a curated network of extraordinary, story-driven shows.

Music

  • This piece has two selections from Saunder Jurriens and Danny Bensi's score to Christine, Yes But and Back to Work.

Notes

  • This very good article in the Museum of Hoaxes gives a nice overview and links out to the original article.
  • Hampton Sides In the Kingdom of Ice has a nice telling of the story with a lot of background on the editor of the Herald.
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Crimetown - S1 E10: The Ghost

After a lucrative career as a thief, Charles Kennedy has an important realization: the real money is in drugs. He rises to become one of the East Coast’s biggest traffickers, throwing coke-fuelled parties and amassing a strange menagerie of pets. But his success attracts the wrong kind of attention.

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50 Things That Made the Modern Economy - Disposable Razor

King Camp Gillette came up with an idea which has helped shape the modern economy. He invented the disposable razor blade. But, perhaps more significantly, he invented the two-part pricing model which works by imposing what economists call “switching costs”. If you’ve ever bought replacement cartridges for an inkjet printer you experienced both when you discovered that they cost almost as much as the printer itself. It’s also known as the “razor and blades” model because that’s where it first drew attention, thanks to King Camp Gillette. Attract people with a cheap razor, then repeatedly charge them for expensive replacement blades. As Tim Harford explains, it’s an idea which has been remarkably influential. Producer: Ben Crighton Editors: Richard Knight and Richard Vadon (Image: Razor, Credit: Shutterstock)
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Bay Curious - This Lumberjack Frat Once Had the Coolest Clubhouse in S.F.

A Cupertino couple wondered where the street name "Hoo Hoo Way" came from. Turns out, it's a long story.


Reported by Jessica Placzek. Bay Curious is Olivia Allen-Price, Vinnee Tong, Paul Lancour, Julia McEvoy, Suzie Racho, Holly Kernan, David Weir and Ethan Lindsey. Theme music by Pat Mesiti-Miller.


Ask us a question at BayCurious.org.


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