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Podcast: Radio Atlantic (LS 59 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: Don’t Buy That Sweater
Pub date: 2023-12-21

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We’re in the coldest season. We’re in the shopping season. We’re in the season of hygge. All the cues point to buying yourself a new cozy sweater. Don’t do it, until you hear what Atlantic staff writer Amanda Mull has to say about the cratering quality of knitwear. For years I’ve wondered why my sweaters pilled so quickly, or why they suffocated me, or smelled like tires. And then I read Mull’s recent story, “Your Sweaters Are Garbage.” It turns out that international trade agreements, greedy entrepreneurs, and my own lack of willpower have conspired to erode my satisfaction.

In this episode, Hanna talks with Amanda Mull—who writes the Atlantic column “Material World”—about why so many consumer goods have declined in quality over the last two decades. As always, Mull illuminates the stories the fashion world works hard to obscure, about the quality of fabrics, the nature of working conditions, and about how to subvert a system that wants you to keep buying more. “I have but one human body,” she says. “I can only wear so many sweaters.”

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Podcast: Past Present Future (LS 55 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: History of Ideas 1: Montaigne
Pub date: 2023-12-25

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Episode one in our series on the great essays is about Montaigne, the man who invented a whole new way of writing and being read. From the fear of death to the joys of life, from the perils of atheism to the pitfalls of faith, from sex to religion and back again, Montaigne wrote the book of himself, which was also a guide to what it means to be human. Elephants, civil war, gout, cosmology, torture, tennis balls, disease, diets, and politics too: all life is here.

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Podcast: Design Matters with Debbie Millman (LS 62 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: Rick Rubin
Pub date: 2023-03-13

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Exploring Rick Rubin’s production discography is like taking a tour through the commanding heights of American music over the past few decades. From Run-DMC to Jay-Z to Adele, the record producer joins to talk about his legendary career making classic songs with the best musicians in the world.

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Podcast: Myths and Legends (LS 79 · TOP 0.01% what is this?)
Episode: 350: Korean folklore: Ghosts and Goblins
Pub date: 2024-01-03

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Three(ish) stories from the Korean peninsula about ghosts and goblins. Kind of. Some are actual ghosts and goblins (도깨비). Some are the ghosts of happier times and the lives we thought we wanted. Some goblins literally beat us up when they cheat at board games. There's a lot to learn this week.

The creature is the Kting Voar, a creature that definitely does not exist, but not for lack of being extremely normal and boring.

Kting Voar article: https://myths.link/academicrigorcryptidstyle

Cow eating snake (NOT the Kting Voar): https://myths.link/snakeyum

Story 1 (the literary man): https://myths.link/literaryman

Story 2: https://myths.link/snakesrevenge

Story 3: https://myths.link/charan

Explosion-proof your cloppy friend (but not really): https://myths.link/superhorse

Disclaimer: https://myths.link/350

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Music:

"Cirrocumulous" by Chad Crouch

 "Venus Aire" by Blue Dot Sessions

 "Cortesia" by Blue Dot Sessions

 "Flatlands 1st" by Blue Dot Sessions

 "Night Music" by Blue Dot Sessions

 "The Bond" by Chad Crouch

 "Virginia Creeper" by Blue Dot Sessions

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