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The basic story of today’s WORK is curious…but the deeper story behind it—and Geisel’s painful Hollywood experience—gets real interesting.
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I’ve been following the Threatin hoax…here is a meander for the Clamor: Threatin: band creates fake fanbase for tour attended by no one → A fake band goes on tour: Threatin provides a perfect tale for our times → Did Threatin’s Ridiculous European Tour Stunt Actually Work? → The Story of Threatin, a Most Puzzling Hoax Even for 2018.
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“…it didn’t matter in the slightest if participants showed any artistic ability. After just 40 seconds of low-quality sketching, subjects not only remembered significantly more, they also recalled more detail and context about the words and ideas they were studying. In short, they learned more, faster.” → Drawing Is the Fastest, Most Effective Way to Learn, According to New Research
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(We are hanging by) a thread. → The Dystopia is Already Here || Pairs well, in my mind anyway, with Guess who’s championing Homer? Radical online conservatives.
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I’m not sure what to make of Rebecca Mead’s article “How Podcasts Became a Seductive—and Sometimes Slippery—Mode of Storytelling”…is it news that podcasts aren’t, well, news? That storytelling and narrative are part of nonfiction? That manipulation of the audience is part of the art and craft of story?
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When Michelle Alexander speaks, I listen. “Recent criminal justice reforms contain the seeds of a frightening system of ‘e-carceration.'” → The Newest Jim Crow
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This is a technology going in the right direction for lovers of paper and digital… → IllumiPaper: Illuminated Interactive Paper
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Look! → Siena International Photo Awards (SIPA) & Soviet Russia in full color [Thanks, Reader B.!] & 1913-1915: Views of Tokyo, Japan
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Listen! → The Biblio File features “twenty-forty minute interviews with accomplished authors, publishers, biblio people, conducted by an excitable bibliophile.” The archives go back to 2006. A few episodes to get you started: Richard Minsky on his Book Art and Scholarship & Hugh McGuire on an alternative future for book publishing & Alberto Manguel on his favourite libraries and bookstores
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Today in 1828, Walt Disney’s ► Steamboat Willie (starring Mickey Mouse), premieres in New York. In addition to being the first Disney cartoon with synchronized sound, it was also the first cartoon that could boast a fully post-produced soundtrack. More links: Steamboat Willie on Wikipedia & Why Mickey Mouse’s 1998 copyright extension probably won’t happen again.