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Looking for Podcast Suggestions? We’Ve Got You Covered
Looking for podcast suggestions? We’ve got you covered. We asked Loomis faculty members to share their podcast playlists with us, and they offered a variety of suggestions as wide-ranging as their areas of personal interest and professional expertise. Here’s a collection of 85 of these free, downloadable audio shows for you to try, listed alphabetically with their “recommenders” listed below each entry: 30 for 30 You may be familiar with ESPN’s 30 for 30 series of award-winning sports documentaries on television. The podcasts of the same name are audio documentaries on similarly compelling subjects. Recent podcasts have looked at the man behind the Bikram Yoga fitness craze, racial activism by professional athletes, the origins of the hugely profitable Ultimate Fighting Championship, and the lasting legacy of the John Madden Football video game. Recommended by Elliott: “I love how it involves the culture of sports. You get an inner look on a sports story or event that you never really knew about. Brings real life and sports together in a fantastic way.” 99% Invisible From the podcast website: “Ever wonder how inflatable men came to be regular fixtures at used car lots? Curious about the origin of the fortune cookie? Want to know why Sigmund Freud opted for a couch over an armchair? 99% Invisible is about all the thought that goes into the things we don’t think about — the unnoticed architecture and design that shape our world.” Recommended by Scott ABCA Calls from the Clubhouse Interviews with coaches in the American Baseball Coaches Association Recommended by Donnie, who is head coach of varsity baseball and says the podcast covers “all aspects of baseball, culture, techniques, practices, strategy, etc. -
Aristotle Meets Apple: Rhetoric in the Podcast”
“Aristotle Meets Apple: Rhetoric in the Podcast” By Anna Butrico An Undergraduate Honors Thesis presented to the faculty of Vanderbilt University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of BACHELOR OF ARTS in ENGLISH April 24, 2016 Thesis Advisor: John Clayton Second Reader: Haerin Shin Program Director: Teresa Goddu Instructions for Reading and Listening: This thesis is a multimedia project that has both written and audio components. The introduction and conclusion to the thesis are podcasts themselves, and there are sound bites within the thesis that showcase the podcasts discussed. Refer to the “Butrico Introduction Podcast” MP3 file to hear the introductory podcast, work through the “Sound Bites for Chapter 1 – 3” folders to listen to the bites embedded within the piece, and refer to the “Butrico Conclusion Podcast” file to hear the conclusion. 1 Introduction: Listen to “Butrico Intro Podcast” Chapter I Engaging Listeners in Problem Solving: Deliberative Rhetoric in the Podcast Mrs. Thompson stands on stage at a University of Michigan conference in 2004, holding a letter in her hands. Her shaky voice belies her strength and focused intentions, as she leans her sixty-year old body over the microphone to speak. “Dear Miss Buchanan,” her voice rings out, slowly reading a letter that fired an African American teacher from the local school system. Mrs. Thompson’s words unroll a profound social paradox: the integration of White students into Black schools after the Brown v. Topeka Board of Education verdict illogically caused an increased segregation of Black teachers. This policy (that had large and lasting unintended consequences) is one of the many examples of deliberative rhetoric that the podcast Revisionist History addresses. -
2045 the Year Man Becomes Immortal by LEV GROSSMAN Thursday, Feb
2045 The Year Man Becomes Immortal By LEV GROSSMAN Thursday, Feb. 10, 2011 Photo--Illustration by Phillip Toledano for TIME On Feb. 15, 1965, a diffident but self-possessed high school student named Raymond Kurzweil appeared as a guest on a game show called I've Got a Secret. He was introduced by the host, Steve Allen, then he played a short musical composition on a piano. The idea was that Kurzweil was hiding an unusual fact and the panelists — they included a comedian and a former Miss America — had to guess what it was. On the show (see the clip on YouTube), the beauty queen did a good job of grilling Kurzweil, but the comedian got the win: the music was composed by a computer. Kurzweil got $200. (See TIME's photo-essay "Cyberdyne's Real Robot.") Kurzweil then demonstrated the computer, which he built himself — a desk-size affair with loudly clacking relays, hooked up to a typewriter. The panelists were pretty blasé about it; they were more impressed by Kurzweil's age than by anything he'd actually done. They were ready to move on to Mrs. Chester Loney of Rough and Ready, Calif., whose secret was that she'd been President Lyndon Johnson's first-grade teacher. But Kurzweil would spend much of the rest of his career working out what his demonstration meant. Creating a work of art is one of those activities we reserve for humans and humans only. It's an act of self-expression; you're not supposed to be able to do it if you don't have a self. -
A Walled Garden Turned Into a Rain Forest
A Walled Garden Turned Into a Rain Forest Pelle Snickars More than ten months after the iPhone was introduced, Lev Grossman in Time Magazine, reflected upon the most valuable invention of 2007. At first he could not make up his mind. Admittedly, he argued, there had been a lot written about the iPhone —and if truth be told, a massive amount of articles, extensive media coverage, hype, “and a lot of guff too.” Grossman hesitated: he confessed that he could not type on the iPhone; it was too slow, too expensive, and even too big. “It doesn’t support my work e- mail. It’s locked to AT&T. Steve Jobs secretly hates puppies. And—all together now— we’re sick of hearing about it!” Yet, when Grossman had finished with his litany of complains, the iPhone was nevertheless in his opinion, “the best thing invented this year.” He gave five reasons why this was the case. First of all, the iPhone had made design important for smartphones. At a time when most tech companies did not treat form seriously at all, Apple had made style a trademark of their seminal product. Of course, Apple had always knew that good design was as important as good technology, and the iPhone was therefore no exception. Still, it was something of a stylistic epitome, and to Grossman even “pretty”. Another of his reasons had to do with touch. Apple didn’t invent the touchscreen, but according to Grossman the company engineers had finally understood what to do with it. In short, Apple’s engineers used the touchscreen to sort of innovate past the GUI, which Apple once pioneered with the Mac, to create “a whole new kind of interface, a tactile one that gives users the illusion of actually physically manipulating data with their hands.” Other reasons, in Grossman view, why the iPhone was the most valuable invention of 2007, was its benefit to the mobile market in general. -
OUTLIERS: the STORY of SUCCESS by Malcolm Gladwell
An Executive Summary of OUTLIERS: THE STORY OF SUCCESS by Malcolm Gladwell Who is Malcolm Gladwell Malcolm Gladwell is most known for his books, “The Tipping Point: How little things can make a big difference”, “Blink: The power of thinking without thinking”, and “Outliers: The Story of Success”. Amazingly, all the books have been featured on The New York Best Sellers list. Gladwell, who was born on September 3, 1963, is not only a writer but is also a journalist and speaker. As a staff writer for the prestigious “New Yorker” ever since 1966, he has gained a lot of popularity due to this books that deal with his research in various areas of social science. Most importantly, he is known to write in a way that provokes and challenges the reader to think differently. This is our summary of his book: Outliers: The Story of Success Preston and Stig’s General Thoughts on the Book We were initially turned on to this book by a comment that Charlie Munger made during a shareholders meeting. Although many might find the discussion of extraordinary people un-relatable, we are of the opinion that the book provides great insights into the importance of finding your own unique “assets”. Perhaps contrarily to others I don’t see this book as a testament to the concept of luck. I would much rather say that if you are willing to work hard, are talented, and you are lucky to have the right opportunities, you will become successful. Even the most successful people in this world are hard working, and a single individual has hardly been successful by merely having birthdays on a lucky date or simply being gifted with special skills. -
How Harry Potter Became the Boy Who Lived Forever
12/17/12 How Harry Potter Became the Boy Who Lived Forever ‑‑ Printout ‑‑ TIME Back to Article Click to Print Thursday, Jul. 07, 2011 The Boy Who Lived Forever By Lev Grossman J.K. Rowling probably isn't going to write any more Harry Potter books. That doesn't mean there won't be any more. It just means they won't be written by J.K. Rowling. Instead they'll be written by people like Racheline Maltese. Maltese is 38. She's an actor and a professional writer — journalism, cultural criticism, fiction, poetry. She describes herself as queer. She lives in New York City. She's a fan of Harry Potter. Sometimes she writes stories about Harry and the other characters from the Potterverse and posts them online for free. "For me, it's sort of like an acting or improvisation exercise," Maltese says. "You have known characters. You apply a set of given circumstances to them. Then you wait and see what happens." (See a Harry Potter primer.) Maltese is a writer of fan fiction: stories and novels that make use of the characters and settings from other people's professional creative work. Fan fiction is what literature might look like if it were reinvented from scratch after a nuclear apocalypse by a band of brilliant pop-culture junkies trapped in a sealed bunker. They don't do it for money. That's not what it's about. The writers write it and put it up online just for the satisfaction. They're fans, but they're not silent, couchbound consumers of media. -
JK Rowling Revealed As Author of the Cuckoo’S Call- Ing” (2013)
Brno Studies in English Volume 41, No. 1, 2015 ISSN 0524-6881 DOI: 10.5817/BSE2015-1-12 IRENE VISSER AND LAURA KAAI THE BOOKS THAT LIVED: J.K. ROWLING AND THE MAGIC OF STORYTELLING Abstract This essay addresses the question of “what makes a bestseller?” It seeks to come to a better understanding of the various factors that contribute signifi- cantly to the outstanding popular appeal and commercial success of bestsellers, using J.K. Rowling’s fiction as a case study. The reception of her work in quality media allows an exploration of Rowling’s phenomenal success with the Harry Potter series, and invites a comparison with the success of her next two novels, The Casual Vacancy (2012) and The Cuckoo’s Calling (2013), both written for adult readers. The context that the essay draws on is provided by literary theo- ries about bestsellers and their features, rather than the commercial/marketing context of the bestseller. Also commenting on the influence of reviews on best- selling success, and the contested literary status of bestsellers, the essay hopes to shed some light on what constitutes “the magic of storytelling” in bestseller success. Key words Bestseller debates; reviewing; literary success; the Potter phenomenon “As the novel’s cultural centrality dims, so storytelling—J.K. Rowling’s magical Owl of Minerva, equipped for a thousand tricks and turns—flies up and fills the air.” James Wood It needs no explanation that Wood’s reference is this essay’s epigraph is to the seven-volume series of Harry Potter, the long narrative of the life and times of the Boy Who Lived. -
Malcolm Gladwell on Writing
The Daily Northwestern - New Yorker writer Gladwell shares tips, stories 02/23/2007 10:06 AM < Back | Home New Yorker writer Gladwell shares tips, stories Becky Bowman Posted: 11/13/01 Reporters should always "swing late," waiting until they begin reporting a story to decide what angle to take with it, New Yorker staff writer Malcolm Gladwell said Monday in Fisk Hall. Gladwell said he has steadfast rules of reporting: Swing late, don't overload stories with information, decide what is truly interesting about a story and meet as many people as possible. Gladwell, whose book "The Tipping Point" examines the intricacies of social networks and the way trends become "epidemics," also said cultivating sources for news stories can be as easy as having a social life. "That's just something I do automatically when I meet someone, without knowing that I'm doing it," Gladwell said. "I try to figure out what they know." He illustrated his point by describing how he wrote "Six Degrees of Lois Weisberg," a New Yorker piece about a 73-year-old Chicago woman who knew everyone in the city. He said the piece practically wrote itself because so much of the reporting involved talking and socializing. Born in England and raised and schooled in Toronto, Gladwell worked as a science writer and New York bureau chief for The Washington Post before moving to The New Yorker in 1996. At The New Yorker, he has written about everything from how fast food is killing Americans to an obese American Indian tribe giving scientists lessons on how to fight weight gain. -
Students' Book· Audio Scripts
STUDENTS’ BOOK· AUDIO SCRIPTS throughout the book is pick up on these T: What’s that? UNIT 7 Recording 1 little things that we really need to go J: Blocking? It’s where you stand or move P = Presenter I = Ian back and look at again if we are to really to, y’know? Like, when you say your words understand why successful people are as you might have to walk quickly across the P: Hello and welcome back to the Focus successful as they are. stage. Or move in front of someone. It’s all podcast. I’m Jenny Osmond, the editor of P: I think the 10,000 hours magic number planned and er, you have to remember it. Focus, the monthly science and technology is really interesting because, as you know, T: Oh, I see. magazine from the BBC. I used to play tennis professionally, and J: But it’s funny: for, for other things I have He’s the hugely influential author of Blink I hit a load of tennis balls when I was a terrible memory. I’m totally useless. I and the Tipping Point. His work is quoted younger. And I’m sure, I must have done always forget birthdays and dates. I’m always by academics, presidents and your mates 10,000 hours’ worth, you know, I must late for things. It’s just … yeah … luckily, I’m down the pub. And now Malcolm Gladwell have done four hours a day, and stuff. OK with my lines. has turned that deft mind of his to a new And I remember speaking to Martina P: What about you, Tim? subject: the science of success. -
IMPACT the Journal of the CENTER for INTERDISCIPLINARY TEACHING and LEARNING
IMPACT The Journal of the CENTER FOR INTERDISCIPLINARY TEACHING AND LEARNING Volume 6, Number 2, SUMMer 20177 Impact TABLE OF CONTENTS About Us ................................................................................................................................................. 3 Editorial Statement ................................................................................................................................... 4 About This Issue’s Authors ...................................................................................................................... 5 Announcements ....................................................................................................................................... 6 Impact Essay Competition ....................................................................................................................... 7 Essays: Podcasts and the Twenty-first Century College Classroom By Rick Cole and Beth Kramer ....................................................................................................... 8 Podcasting in the Composition Classroom: Writing, Research, and Activism By Bethany Holmstrom .................................................................................................................. 12 Teaching Serial at the Criminal Justice College: Discomforting Ethics and Interdisciplinary Methods for Critical Thinking By Julie L. Gafney ......................................................................................................................... -
Apple and the American Revolution
Apple and the American Revolution: Remembering Why We Have the Fourth Amendment Yale Law Journal Company, Incorporated 126 YALE LAW JOURNAL FORUM (forthcoming October 2016) Clark D. Cunningham1 [email protected] www.ClarkCunningham.org On February 16, 2016, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) obtained an unprecedented court order in the San Bernardino shooting case that would have forced Apple to design and deliver to it software capable of destroying the encryption and passcode protections built into the iPhone.2 The DOJ asserted that this order was simply the extension of a warrant obtained by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to search the shooter’s iPhone, which had been locked with a standard passcode. The FBI’s litigation strategy backfired when Apple decided to commit all its resources to getting the order vacated. The Fourth Amendment’s guarantee that “[t]he right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers and effects against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated”3 was not technically at issue in the San Bernardino case. Nonetheless, when Apple CEO Tim Cook said, “we fear that this demand would undermine the very freedoms and liberty our government is meant to protect,”4 perhaps for the first time since the era of the Revolution Americans in general began to feel that they needed protection against search warrants. Apple assembled a team of legal luminaries to challenge the San Bernardino order, including former Solicitor General Ted Olson, who told the media that a loss for Apple would “lead to a police state.”5 The day before the highly anticipated hearing, the DOJ unexpectedly requested an adjournment; a week later the DOJ asked that the order be vacated as no longer necessary, saying that an unnamed “third party” had broken the passcode for the FBI.6 The DOJ similarly backed off in a later case in New York.7 What happened? The FBI took a beating in the media, public opinion, and Congress. -
Texas Book Festival to Host Malcolm Gladwell at 2019 Festival Weekend
TEXAS BOOK FESTIVAL TO HOST MALCOLM GLADWELL AT 2019 FESTIVAL WEEKEND Book Tickets to See Gladwell Present “Talking to Strangers” Now Available WHAT: Texas Book Festival is proud to host multiple New York Times #1 best-selling author Malcolm Gladwell as he presents his new book, Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don’t Know, on Saturday, October 26th at 1 p.m. Book tickets to see Gladwell present this “classically Gladwellian adventure” are available via the Texas Book Festival website and will highlight the troubles and scandals from history through today. Gladwell is the author of five New York Times bestsellers—The Tipping Point, Blink, Outliers, What the Dog Saw, and David and Goliath—and has been included in TIME magazine’s “100 Most Influential People” list and touted as one of Foreign Policy‘s “Top Global Thinkers.” Talking to Strangers is a challenging and controversial excursion through history, psychology, and scandals taken straight from the news. Gladwell revisits the deceptions of Bernie Madoff, the trial of Amanda Knox, the suicide of Sylvia Plath, the Jerry Sandusky pedophilia scandal at Penn State University, and the death of Sandra Bland—throwing our understanding of these and other stories into doubt. In his first book since his #1 best-seller David and Goliath, Malcolm Gladwell has written a gripping guidebook for troubled times. Book tickets for this session are available now via Texas Book Festival’s website and cost $35. Purchasing a book ticket grants admission for one to the Festival session and one pre-signed copy of Gladwell’s Talking to Strangers.