January 2012
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The Slits - “I Heard It Through the...
Spoon - “I Summon You”
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Broadcast - “Come On Let’s Go”
December 2011
November 2011
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Beirut - “East Harlem”
October 2011
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September 2011
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NPR: The Secrets of Whole Foods
“Fast Company visits a Whole Foods in Manhattan to explain how the store creates the illusion of freshness:
The prices for the flowers, as for all the fresh fruits and vegetables, are scrawled in chalk on fragments of black slate …. It’s as if the farmer pulled up in front of Whole Foods just this morning, unloaded his produce, then hopped back in his flatbed truck to...
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Little Dragon - “Blinking Pigs”
August 2011
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Lena Lencek: You Wish Your Professors Were This...
I did this interview with the incomparable Lena Lencek in April, but thought I’d share it here as both a “hurrah” to that odd-yet-persistent tradition of students returning to school in the fall, as well as an excuse to shed some tears over the fact that she’s on sabbatical this year. _________________________________________ AS: So I think we should start this interview...
Apparently, status can correspond to how...
Psychologist James Pennebaker at the University of Texas at Austin analyzed pronoun use and says,
“One of the most interesting results was part of a study my students and I conducted dealing with status in email correspondence. Basically, we discovered that in any interaction, the person with the higher status uses I-words less (yes, less) than people who are low in status ….
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Erik Satie - “La diva de...
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Little Dragon - “My Step”