"This story [of This American Life] includes excerpts from a radio documentary called "The Human Button", which originally aired on BBC Radio 4 in December, 2008. For more information visit www.bbc.co.uk/radio4."
Via This American Life 399: Contents Unknown, http://thisamericanlife.org/Radio_Episode.aspx?episode=399
"Stories of filling in the blank. A man finds himself in a train station in India, with no idea how he got there or who he is. His memory gone, he has no choice but to let other people—police, doctors, friends, family—create an identity for him. In another story, people bid blind on the contents of abandoned storage units up for auction. (One tip: If you see large bags, go low; it’s someone’s old clothes.)"
Starts with the WWIII instruction set with Ron Rosenbaum, my journalistic hero!
From http://thisamericanlife.org/Radio_Episode.aspx?episode=399
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From http://thisamericanlife.org/Radio_Episode.aspx?episode=392
Awesome show featuring the Planet Money crew. Best part is the pet-care part. Vacuuming. Heh.
On this week’s edition of Rebooting The News, NYU Journalism Professor Jay Rosen riffs on the seminal NPR/This American Life co-production from last year, Giant Pool of Money, and finds in it the germ of a compelling argument: Deep reporting is not only good journalism, it may actually be the thing that creates a desire for more news, building new consumers of news where there were none before. From http://www.niemanlab.org/2009/05/rosen-deep-reporting-creates-hunger-for-updates/
"This "most wanted" version combines the elements the 500 people surveyed said they wanted most — love, soprano sax, humble ambition, tenor sax, a marriage proposal, cheesy electronic drum fills, working the night shift, string swells, power chords, and saccharine male/female harmonies — into an easy listening-style adult contemporary sound that could peel the paint off of the Space Shuttle." From http://blog.wired.com/music/2008/05/survey-produced.html and and featured in This American Life Episode #88 - Numbers http://thisamericanlife.org/Radio_Episode.aspx?sched=1277 Project website http://www.diacenter.org/km/musiccd.html
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"An online poll conducted in the ’90s set Vitaly Komar, Alex Melamid and David Soldier on a quest to create the most annoying song ever. After gathering data about people’s least favorite music and lyrical subjects, they did the unthinkable: they combined them into a single monstrosity, specifically engineered to sound unpleasant to the maximum percentage of listeners." From http://blog.wired.com/music/2008/04/a-scientific-at.html and featured in This American Life Episode #88 - Numbers http://thisamericanlife.org/Radio_Episode.aspx?sched=1277
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