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3 min readNov 15, 2015
Life science is having a moment. In addition to three great articles on the DNA-editor CRISPR directly below, there are also two decent science shows right now: The Brain with David Eagleman on PBS and Breakthrough on NAT GEO. Plus — it’s a bit of a stretch, but Soderbergh’s The Knick on Cinemax is an elegant study of the history of surgery.
Anyway, here’s this past week’s LEDGER, a complete media consumption diary for the past week:
Saturday, November 14, 2015
- POST: “The Gene Hackers” | The New Yorker
- POST: “A Text Editor for Your Genetic Code” | Aeon
- POST: “The Crispr Quandary” | NYT Magazine
- POST: “Web Poets’ Society” | New York Times
- TV: Jeopardy (s32 e148) | ABC
- TV: Saturday Night Live, “Elizabeth Banks” | NBC
- TV: The Muppets, “Pigs in a Blackout” (s32 e42) | ABC
Friday, November 13, 2015
- MUSIC: Montage of Heck: The Home Recordings, Kurt Cobain
- POST: Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck Review | Pitchfork
- POST: “Secret Network Spreads Money through Silicon Valley” | WSJ
- TV: Nathan for You, “Smokers Allowed” (s3 e5) | COM
- TV: South Park, “Naughty Ninjas” (s19 e7) | COM
- TV: The Brain with David Eagleman, “Why Do I Need You?” (s1 e5)| PBS
- TV: The Daily Show (s1 e24) | COM
- TV: Real Time with Bill Maher | HBO
- TV: Scream Queens, “Mommie Dearest” (s1 e8) | FOX
Thursday, November 12, 2015
- POST: The Dream Life of Driverless Cars | NY Times
- PODCAST: Studio 360, “Are Computers Creative?”
- PODCAST: A16z, “Blockchain vs/and Bitcoin”
- PODCAST: A Few Things with Claire & Erica, “Danielle Nussbaum”
Wednesday, November 11, 2015
- POST: “You, Only Better” | NY Times
- POST: “Why Harvey Danger’s ‘Flagpole Sitta’ endures” | Onion A.V. Club
- POST: “The Hateful Eight Resurrects Nearly Obsolete Tech” | NY Times
- TV: You’re the Worst, “A Right Proper Story” (s2 e10)| FXX
- TV: Nova, “Making North America: Life” | PBS
- TV: Scream Queens, “Mommie Dearest” (s1 e8) | FOX
- TV: Drunk History, “Inventors” (s3 e11) | COM
- TV: The Daily Show (s1 e23) | COM
- VIDEO: “116 Photos NASA Picked to Explain Our World to Aliens” | Vox
- PODCAST: WTF with Marc Maron, “Lorne Michaels”
Tuesday, November 10, 2015
- POST: “What Your Music Format Says About You” | Pitchfork
- POST: “Tech Is Eating Media. Now What?” | Medium
- POST: “The Liquid Audience” | Medium
- POST: “Meet ‘Dialogue’” | Nieman Journalism Lab
- POST: “Hot Pod, One Year In” | Hot Pod
- POST: “Google Just Open Sourced Its AI Engine” | Wired
- TV: Republican Presidential Debate | FOX BIZ
- TV: The Daily Show, “Dan Price” (s1 e22) | COM
- TV: World Series of Poker | ESPN
Monday, November 9, 2015
- POST: “Ultimate Review of Streaming Media Players” | Quartz
- POST: “Grimes: The Triumph of a Self-Made Oddball” | Rolling Stone
- POST: “Grimes: Art Angels Review (8.5)” | Pitchfork
- POST: “Predictions: The Endgame for Media Companies” | Contently
- POST: “Digital Team Helping Obama Find His Voice Online” | NY Times
- POST: “The Big Bang of Art and Tech in New York” | NY Times
- TV: Fargo, “The Gift of the Magi” (s2 e5) | FX
- TV: Charlie Rose, Dean Basquet | PBS
- TV: Mike Tyson Mystery, “For the Troops” (s1 e2) | ADULT
- TV: The Daily Show (s1 e21)| COMEDY
- TV: Jeopardy (s32 e41) | ABC
- TV: Austin City Limits, TV on the Radio & The War on Drugs | PBS
- TV: World Series of Poker | ESPN
Sunday, November 8, 2015
- PODCAST: Slate Money, “The Two and 20 Edition”
- PODCAST: The Message, “Episode 6”
- POST: “Stewart Butterfield, Email Killer” | WSJ
- TV: Breakthrough, “More Than Human” (s1 e2)| NAT GEO
- TV: Amy Schumer: Live at the Apollo | HBO
- TV: Minnesota Vikings vs. St. Louis Rams| FOX
- TV: Meet the Press | NBC
- TV: Reliable Sources | CNN
- TV: Homeland, “Parabiosis” | SHO
- TV: Last Week with John Oliver (s2 e33) |HBO
- TV: New York Times Closeup | NY1
- TV: 60 Minutes (s48 e7) | CBS
- TV: The Walking Dead, “Now” (s6 e5)| AMC
Rex Sorgatz scribbles non-media content at @fimoculous.