7/25/20

Episode 10: things we learned/things we got wrong:

News:

Submarine off the coast of France

Global warming

Asteroids passing in near-Earth orbit

Robert Mueller https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/07/11/mueller-stone-oped/?arc404=true

Justice Dept anti-trust review on US tech companies

Supreme Court voted military funds can be used to build US/Mexico wall  

Transgender bathrooms

MacMillan ebook embargo https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/libraries/article/82715-macmillan-abandons-library-e-book-embargo.html

UK Prime Minister

Topics:

Graphic novels

how libraries have handled COVID

girls/women and comics

Whitney Biennial scandals + Book White Negros

https://hyperallergic.com/510834/whitney-biennial-boycott-response

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2017/mar/21/whitney-biennial-emmett-till-painting-dana-schutz

https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/miranda/la-et-cam-donelle-woolford-controversy-whitney-biennial-20140609-column.html

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/curators-announced-2021-whitney-biennial-1671853

Sports + BLM

Abraham Lincoln scandals 

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonianmag/civil-war-boat-explosion-killed-more-people-titanic-180963008/ 

Kurt Flood and the Reserve Clause

https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2011/07/how-curt-flood-changed-baseball-and-killed-his-career-in-the-process/241783/