David Eagleman: Could you upload your brain to live forever? eagleman.com/podcast/c…
“Wilder” is a limited-series podcast about Laura Ingalls Wilder, the author of the “Little House” books. Wilder lived an amazing life: She traveled cross-country in a covered wagon and lived long enough to see Elvis on TV and fly in a jet plane. Her books have been beloved fixtures of classrooms for generations. But the books are also criticized for their outright racism, and at least one Native American scholar says they should only be taught in context.
Host Glynnis MacNicol loves the “Little House” books, and she travels the country talking with superfans and critics.
Today’s ephemera: Marty Feldman and Ann-Margret, 1977
New York subway, 1980
Marty Feldman and Ann-Margret, 1977. Via www.reddit.com/r/OldScho…
He looks as surprised to be with her as we are to see them as a couple.
Every time I bring in the car to be washed, I end up choosing add-ons at random.
I finally decided to look up which ones to get, and which ones to pass on.
Consumer Reports says get the undercarriage wash at least once a season, “especially if you drive through mud or live in a part of the country where roads are salted in winter.”
Wheel cleaning is good, but spray-on wax is purely cosmetic.
www.consumerreports.org/car-maint…
And here is the theme for the 1976 cinematic classic, “Car Wash.”
Five years ago: At last night’s press reception I mistook another editor for a waiter and tried to take food off his plate. I mean, I literally reached out and was touching his food. This is why they don’t allow me out usually.
New Project Uses AI To Turn Project Gutenberg Texts Into Free Audiobooks With Lifelike Voices — In 30 Seconds www.techdirt.com/2023/07/2…
Red Hat saved IBM’s bacon this quarter techcrunch.com/2023/07/2…
Surgeon warns against the most dangerous sex position, which causes 50% of penile fractures boingboing.net/2023/07/2…
How did we fill our in-between time before smartphones?
I’m constitutionally incapable of ignoring text within my sight, so I remember reading cereal boxes at breakfast, magazine covers in checkout lines, display ads on public transit, out-of-date magazines in doctors’ offices, in-flight Skymall catalogs, and posted signs (however irrelevant) of all types.
When the Town Square Shatters. Cory Doctorow remembers GEnie, where I made a lot of friends (including Cory). He says the end of GEnie nearly 25 years ago foretold the breakup of Twitter’s community. doctorow.medium.com/when-the-…