Episode 13 - Drowning in Plastic

We discuss the article "Inside the booming business of background music" by Jake Hulyer in The Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/nov/06/inside-the-booming-business-of-background-music

We discuss the article "Everything You Wear Is Athleisure" by Derek Thompson in The Atlantic: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/10/bicycle-bloomers-yoga-pants-how-sports-shaped-modern-fashion/574081/

We discuss the article "Can You Curate a Town?" by Jennifer Miller in the New York Times: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/03/style/mountain-dale-new-york.html

We discuss the article "Why We Can't Quit the QWERTY Keyboard" by Rachel Metz for MIT Technology Review: https://www.technologyreview.com/s/611620/why-we-cant-quit-the-qwerty-keyboard/

We continue our discussion of the article "The Ugly History of Beautiful Things: Perfume" by Katy Kelleher for Longreads: https://longreads.com/2018/09/10/ugly-history-of-beautiful-things-perfume/

We discuss the article "The Ugly History of Beautiful Things: Perfume" by Katy Kelleher in Longreads: https://longreads.com/2018/09/10/ugly-history-of-beautiful-things-perfume/

We discuss the article "How Connected Is Your Community to Everywhere Else in America?" by Emily Badger and Quoctrung Bui in the New York Times.

We discuss the article "Getting Clean, the Tudor Way" by Ruth Goodman in The New Republic: https://newrepublic.com/article/129828/getting-clean-tudor-way

Dan takes a break, Susanna and Amanda discuss the article "The Super Bowl of Beekeeping" by Jaime Lowe in the New York Times Magazine: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/15/magazine/the-super-bowl-of-beekeeping.html

We discuss the article "Treasures from the Color Archive" by Simon Schama in The New Yorker. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/09/03/treasures-from-the-color-archive

We discuss the article "All mental disorders are brain disorders … not." by Eiko Fried: http://eiko-fried.com/all-mental-disorders-are-brain-disorders-not/

We discuss the article "The Case for Rooms" by Kate Wagner in The Atlantic: https://www.citylab.com/design/2018/08/the-case-for-rooms/563216/

We discuss the article "How to Stop Procrastinating and Finish a Big Project" by Olga Khazan in the Atlantic.

We discuss the article "How Cats Used Humans to Conquer the World" by Sarah Zhang in The Atlantic: https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/06/cat-domination/530685/

Ecologist Amanda joins us as we discuss the article "The Moral Cost of Cats" by Rachel E. Gross in Smithsonian Magazine. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/moral-cost-of-cats-180960505/

We discuss the article "How the Startup Mentality Failed Kids in San Francisco" by Daniel Duane in Wired: https://www.wired.com/story/willie-brown-middle-school-startup-mentality-failed/

We discuss the article "Where are the Radical Politics of Cyberpunk?" by Cameron Kunzelman in Waypoint: https://waypoint.vice.com/en_us/article/ne5jg7/radical-politics-cyberpunk-2077

We're taking a brief hiatus from making the podcast this week & next. In the meantime, please share any interesting long read articles you've come across recently over at our blog: http://artistmaterialist.wordpress.com

We discuss the article "A Compassionate Substance - How science and myth collide in water." by Philip Ball in Lapham's Quarterly. https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/water/compassionate-substance

We discuss the article "We Depend on Plastic. Now We're Drowning in It." by Laura Parker in National Geographic. https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2018/06/plastic-planet-waste-pollution-trash-crisis/

We discuss the article "The Two Most Important College-Admissions Criteria Now Mean Less" by Jeffrey Selingo in The Atlantic: https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2018/05/college-admissions-gpa-sat-act/561167/

We discuss the article "What's That Smell You're Reading?" by Ann Elizabeth Wiener in Distillations magazine: https://www.sciencehistory.org/distillations/magazine/whats-that-smell-youre-reading

We discuss the article "How Shoddy Statistics Found a Home in Sports Research" by Christie Aschwanden and Mai Nguyen at FiveThirtyEight.com: https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/how-shoddy-statistics-found-a-home-in-sports-research/

We discuss the article "I Dream of Content-Trash" by Zach Webb in The Baffler: https://thebaffler.com/latest/i-dream-of-content-trash-webb

We discuss the article "Why restaurants became so loud — and how to fight back" by Julia Belluz in Vox. https://www.vox.com/2018/4/18/17168504/restaurants-noise-levels-loud-decibels

We discuss the article "Dear Humanities Profs: We Are the Problem" by Eric Bennett in the Chronicle of Higher Education: https://www.chronicle.com/article/Dear-Humanities-Profs-We-Are/243100

We discuss the article "OLPC’s $100 laptop was going to change the world — then it all went wrong" by Adi Robertson: https://www.theverge.com/platform/amp/2018/4/16/17233946/olpcs-100-laptop-education-where-is-it-now

We discuss the article "10 Breakfasts from a Century Ago that No One Eats Anymore" by Kat Kinsman: http://www.myrecipes.com/extracrispy/breakfast-foods-no-one-eats-anymore

We discuss Hollis Robbins' article "Dancing with Chains." http://blog.lareviewofbooks.org/essays/dancing-chains/

We discuss a study of urban renewal efforts in Flint Michigan as described in the article "Want to fight crime? Plant some flowers with your neighbor." https://theconversation.com/want-to-fight-crime-plant-some-flowers-with-your-neighbor-91804

We discuss the article "Why Gen X Isn't Psyched for the '90s Revival" from Racked.

We discuss the article "How Skin Care Became an At-Home Science Experiment" by Julie Beck in The Atlantic. (https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2018/03/the-citizen-science-of-skin-care/555125/)