Climate-change Sci-Fi (+ Jeffrey Toobin on word-salad at the Top).
Here when they update podcast.
Also too: (because Science is always now 'about' The Menace's incomprehension of everything, innit?
This not for everyone--but a damn good retrospective, fleshed out by enumerating the oft-Peculiarities of U.S. 'Law' n'order: as one tries to apply THAT to the [reasons behind..]
Why? the Founders chose: "High Crimes and Misdemeanors' ..that phrase so begging-for obfuscatorial Mayhem whenever ..there's a Need to extirpate a Rat from the Grain Silo®.
Carrion ..so much of it is verbal-but-tastes-bad.
Climate Change SciFi
An encore of an episode on climate change-themed science fiction. Brooke Gladstone speaks to authors Jeff Vandermeer, Claire Vaye Watkins and Kim Stanley Robinson about their fiction. And the show asks listeners to suggest new words to describe things that are disappearing before our eyes. One listener suggested “wintersmell”: an imagined nostalgia for the time when it used to get cold every year.
Also too: (because Science is always now 'about' The Menace's incomprehension of everything, innit?
City Arts and Lectures
Jeffrey Toobin
Jeffrey Toobin is a staff writer at The New Yorker, a senior legal analyst at CNN and the author of multiple bestselling books, including “The Oath” and “The Run of His Life.” His latest book, “True Crimes and Misdemeanors: The Investigation of Donald Trump,” is a real-life legal thriller about the prosecutors and congressional investigators pursuing the truth about Donald Trump’s complicity in several crimes – and why they failed. Well known for his ability to illuminate the complexities of our judicial system, Toobin has covered some of the country’s most sensational news stories and high-profile cases, such as the Starr investigation of President Clinton, Martha Stewart’s legal battles the O.J. Simpson trial and numerous Supreme Court cases. Toobin is in conversation with Preet Bharara, who served as U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York from 2009 to 2017.
This not for everyone--but a damn good retrospective, fleshed out by enumerating the oft-Peculiarities of U.S. 'Law' n'order: as one tries to apply THAT to the [reasons behind..]
Why? the Founders chose: "High Crimes and Misdemeanors' ..that phrase so begging-for obfuscatorial Mayhem whenever ..there's a Need to extirpate a Rat from the Grain Silo®.
Carrion ..so much of it is verbal-but-tastes-bad.