8/22/20

Episode 15: things we learned/things we got wrong:

News:

Indonesian capital moving 

Johnson & Johnson Oklahoma lawsuit opioid crisis https://www.npr.org/2019/11/15/779439374/oklahoma-judge-shaves-107-million-off-opioid-decision-against-johnson-johnson

Tropical Storm Dorian upgraded to hurricane

3 year terraforming project Strelka https://theterraforming.strelka.com/

Jessi Combs died while trying to set a new land speed record

The Vagina Bible

Costco in Shanghai

La Brea Tar Pits redesign 

https://la.curbed.com/2019/12/11/21011584/la-brea-tar-pits-remodel-weiss-manfredi-redesign

e-cigarette companies being sued https://www.cnet.com/health/juul-targeted-kids-with-ads-on-cartoon-network-nickelodeon-lawsuit-alleges/

Topics:

Walking into spiderwebs https://www.reddit.com/r/tall/comments/1s8v4n/the_most_annoying_tall_person_problem_straight_to/

"Lost in the Supermarket" "Stay Free"

Pumice island/raft in the South Pacific

sunscreen ban

Memory

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/how-our-brains-make-memories-14466850

Susan Sontag On Photography

This American Life about Radiolab ex-host Robert Krulwich and his wife

https://www.thisamericanlife.org/226/reruns

https://imagejournal.org/top-25-films-on-memory/

Iggy Pop in Season 6 "The Magnificent Ferengi" of Deep Space Nine