June 2012
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Ray Bradbury on Fresh Air in 1988.
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“$9.80”
– That’s how much it cost for Ray Bradbury to write Fahrenheit 451.
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“People come from Wall Street and go into government and then leave government...”
– Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz on lobbying. [full interview here]
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“The nature of our growth today is markedly different than in the decades after...”
– Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz argues that widely unequal societies don’t function effectively or have stable economies and that even the rich will pay a steep price if economic inequalities continue to worsen.
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“1 out of every 86 adults in the state”
– Louisiana currently leads the entire world in prisoners per capita. Here’s why.
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Fresh Air Offices, 2:55PM
Coworker: Mel, they have one of your people on TV.
Mel: uhhhh....
Coworker: A social media person.
Mel: Oh, I wasn't sure what type of people you were referring to.
Coworker: Not the fashion forward.
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“In the old nuclear age, you could sit under a big screen under a mountain in...”
– New York Times’ chief Washington correspondent David Sanger on cyberattacks.
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I Just Deleted All My Music →
nprmusic:
I just deleted over 25,000 songs from my iTunes library. I am going to trust in the cloud, where my library now lives. I’m a bit scared, but I backed everything up, took a deep breath and stepped into the future.
—All Songs Considered’s Bob Boilen takes the leap
godspeed, bob.
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“Happiness schmappiness.I think the pursuit of it, and our focus on it, is...”
– Psychologist Dan Gottlieb.
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What was the best thing that happened to you this...
It’s Friday! Which means it’s time for another edition of best thing all week! What was the best thing that happened to you this week?
I’ll start: I went strawberry picking on Sunday and then made three pies last night and ate one in a backyard with friends and wine and it was lovely. Your turn.
