Posts tagged radiolab

I listened to a recent Radiolab short this morning, 99% Invisible, which included a segment about Nicholas Feltron, a guy who has been producing beautiful annual reports about stats in his life for the past few years. The reports are all at feltron.com, and he even created a site, datyum.com, where one can collect and graph their own data. “All the easy, dismissive criticisms about Foursquare check-ins and Twitter should be popping into your mind right now. They all boil down to this: Why do I care what you had for breakfast this morning? …But a funny thing happens when you take what you had for breakfast this morning and multiply it by a hundred of its quotidian equivalents and multiply that times 365.” I love Tumblr for this reason—after almost 4 years, I have a huge catalog of small bits of my life that’s interesting to go back through.

I listened to a recent Radiolab short this morning, 99% Invisible, which included a segment about Nicholas Feltron, a guy who has been producing beautiful annual reports about stats in his life for the past few years. The reports are all at feltron.com, and he even created a site, datyum.com, where one can collect and graph their own data.

“All the easy, dismissive criticisms about Foursquare check-ins and Twitter should be popping into your mind right now. They all boil down to this: Why do I care what you had for breakfast this morning? …But a funny thing happens when you take what you had for breakfast this morning and multiply it by a hundred of its quotidian equivalents and multiply that times 365.”

I love Tumblr for this reason—after almost 4 years, I have a huge catalog of small bits of my life that’s interesting to go back through.

This week’s Radiolab Short about lucid dreaming was straight out of Inception and scared the crap out of me during my commute this morning. In short, the guy was able to take control of a nightmare he had for 20 years and beat it. I want everyone I know to listen to it so we can talk about it.  I also just ordered the guy’s book from the library, and am very excited to check it out.

This week’s Radiolab Short about lucid dreaming was straight out of Inception and scared the crap out of me during my commute this morning. In short, the guy was able to take control of a nightmare he had for 20 years and beat it. I want everyone I know to listen to it so we can talk about it. 

I also just ordered the guy’s book from the library, and am very excited to check it out.

I listened to this story yesterday for the second time, and remembered to look up this photo. I am obsessed with Radiolab at the moment. I also listened to The Bus Stop, and found it so fascinating that I told CR about it. He responded that he’d heard of it before from me. I must have listened to this in 2010 and been equally fascinated. I’m losing it!

I listened to this story yesterday for the second time, and remembered to look up this photo. I am obsessed with Radiolab at the moment.

I also listened to The Bus Stop, and found it so fascinating that I told CR about it. He responded that he’d heard of it before from me. I must have listened to this in 2010 and been equally fascinated. I’m losing it!

It’s a proxy for real life, but better. It renews itself. It’s constantly happening in real time. There are conflicts that seem to carry real consequences, but at the end of the day, don’t. It’s war where nobody dies. It’s a proxy for all our emotions and desires and hopes, I mean, heck, what’s not to love about sports?

Eric Simons on Radiolab episode Games to the question, “What exactly about sports gives it an immeasurable value?”

Best explanation I’ve ever heard!