S2 Ep4. A hedgehog could save your life! Spiky quills protect hedgehogs from being eaten by predators. But they also play an important role in cushioning the animal when it falls, keeping it safe even if it plunges from a great height. And now, they can help keep humans safe, too. By mimicking the flexibility, strength and pattern of the quills, scientists have developed a sports helmet that could prevent concussions.
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From police officer misconduct to deadly shootings, internal affairs investigations are how law enforcement agencies investigate their own and promise to hold themselves accountable. In California, those investigations were secret — that is, until a new police transparency law unsealed thousands of files.
This week’s “Long Reads Sunday” is a reading of “Bitcoin: An Orange New Deal” by Andrew Bailey and Bradley Rettler.
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At the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month of 1918, the Great War came to an end. In the preceding four years and four months, the world saw the greatest bloodletting history up until that point.
Even after the announcement of the armistice, the war continued for several hours.
During that time, soldiers still died. One, in particular, died at the very last minute of the war.
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Music
Pollen by H.Takahashi and, later, Photosynthese.
The New York Herald Tribune by Martial Solal
Trying Something Again, Again by Lullatone
Wiffle Ball from Joel P. West’s score for Short Term 12
The title theme to Cani Arrabbiati
Increase by David Lang and Alarm Will Sound
Nijuichi by Sylvain Chaveau
Occam II for Violin by Eliane Radigue
Drunken Aviator by the (great, truly) Ida.
Eyes Closed and Travelling by Peter Broderick
Notes
If you are looking to read more about Betty, I’d suggest Rosanne Montillo’s terrific book, Fire on the Track.
For a blockbuster of a book club episode, we’re joined by friend of the show David Banks to discuss Chapter 6 of Autonomous Technology: “Technological Politics.” We get into an analysis of reverse adaptation in large-scale socio-technical systems, the ways in which human ends become subjugated to technological means, and the relationship between the imperatives of the technological order and the state. Plus, what Marxist-Leninism could learn from a theory of technological politics—and vice versa. You can find a free pdf of the whole book here: https://www.ratical.org/ratville/AoS/AutonomousTechnology.pdf
• Read David’s article: Lines of Power: Availability to Networks as a Social Phenomenon https://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/6283
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Dan and Will return after their vacations to catch up on what they've missed. After checking in briefly on Justice Breyer, they try to talk about two of the Court's biggest cases from the end of the Term. They only manage to get through one of them: Brnovich v. DNC.
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