99% Invisible :: The Address Book
A new back traces the history of street addresses, how different addresses have contributed to divisions in social class, and how the government assigning addresses can be seen as an imposition on individual liberties.
The story of Anne Carroll Moore, the New York Public Library librarian who invented and popularized the children’s library. She also used her position of influence what types of books would be purchased by children’s libraries, favoring escapist tales of imaginary worlds. This is also the story of Margaret Wise Brown, who wrote a book rooted in ordinary childhood experiences that Moore absolutely detested, Goodnight Moon.
Smithsonian Sidedoor :: Dress Coded
School dress codes have been a standard of educational experiences for over a century, and through all that time have particularly been used to police girls’ bodies, especially Black girls’ bodies.
Throughline :: The Everlasting Problem
The history of why the United States has eschewed single payer healthcare and how healthcare became associated with employment instead.
What Next :: The Bottom Line on Trump’s Taxes
Not only is Trump’s failure to pay much in taxes indicative of corruption and hypocrisy, but his desire to be reelected is partially because it will help him avoid paying his many debts.
RUNNING TALLY OF PODCAST OF THE WEEK APPEARANCES
- AirSpace – 1
- Afropop Worldwide – 3
- All Songs Considered – 3
- And Nothing Less – Entire series
- The Anthropocene Reviewed – 1
- BackStory – 4
- Brattle Film Podcast – 2
- Best of the Left – 2
- Coronavirus Daily/Consider This – 5
- Code Switch – 3
- Decoder Ring – 5
- Fresh Air – 9
- Futility Closet – 3
- Have You Heard – 3
- Here & Now – 1
- Hidden Brain – 3
- Hit Parade – 2
- Hub History – 1
- The Last Archive – 4
- LeVar Burton Reads – 1
- Memory Palace – 4
- More Than Enough – 4
- Mortified – 1
- The Moth – 1
- Nice White Parents – entire series
- 99% Invisible – 10
- 60-Second Science – 4
- Planet Money – 4
- The Politics of Everything – 2
- Radio Boston – 3
- Radiolab – 7
- Retro Disney World – 1
- Risk! – 1
- Science Talk – 2
- Smithsonian Sidedoor – 4
- Snap Judgment – 1
- Sound Opinions – 1
- The Thirty20Eight – 1
- This American Life – 2
- This Day in Esoteric Public History – 1
- Throughline – 11
- The Tomorrow Society – 1
- Twenty Thousand Hertz – 7
- Wedway Radio – 1
- What Next – 11
Panorama of the Mountains 