Your humble podcaster-squirrel is back! Jacke considers the legacy of Charles M. Schulz, creator of Charlie Brown and Peanuts, and reflects on the difference between being "best known for" and "known for" an artistic endeavor. THEN Jacke continues the discussion of Bob Dylan and literature (is his music literature? is it not?...
What happened in the Sixties? How did singers of popular music transform from mere entertainers to the poetic bards of their generation? Were these songs literature? If so, what does that mean? And if not, what exactly are they? In this episode, Jacke talks to the authors of a new book, Poetic Song Verse: Blues-Based Popular...
Love her ppdcast too
An article on the Google Ngram Viewer, etymonline btw is one of my favourite online resources.
This channel ALTER posts horror short fipms and this is perhaps the best short film I've ever seen. 10/10 would recommend.
Bit of a long read but definitely worth reading.
The On The Media podcast is one of my favorites.
Now I didn't expect plastic shoes to be good footwear for football!
A great article for fellow cricket nerds.
Forgot to share this. Discovered it through the hard fork podcast I think
Discovered on lemmy
Paywalled, please use the 'bypass paywalls clean d' addon on firefox.
Genetic editing is a topic I was recently fascinated by. Jenifer Doudna is someone who explains it very well. Also a Nobel Prize winner.
Imo the best utilization of AI yet. I'll try to find and link the ezra klein podcast episode on the topoc as well.
If you understand the power of bollywood in India, hell south asia, this should help you realize just how terrible the state of democracy in india is atm.
This is 2 years old, it scares me how much worse it could be by now and what the future holds.
This is one of my favorite short stories ever. I love the feeling of this story even if isn't perfectly analyzable.
I could share a million more links on this topic as it fascinates me so much. And maybe I will.
Colin Ward, Naom Chomsky and David Graeber are my 3 favorite 'modern' anarchist writers. You've probably heard of the other 2, give Colin Ward a go too!
This I share more for the bizarre phenomenon and less for the article itself
Now I sort of knew this in the back of my mind and yet this information shocked me and changed my perception of how processed the work is.
Oddly for an article this got quite famous, a slightly long read but a job very well researched article.
