“The Knick,” Cinemax

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.