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March 2, 2017
The Ray Bradbury Challenge: Day 190
Short story: The Gun by Philip K. Dick, listened to on the Voice Before the Void podcast.
Poem: Romantic Moment by Tony Hoagland, listened to on the Poem of the Day podcast, from February 2017. Highly Recommended.
Essay: Psy Wars by Will Self, listened to on the BBC’s A Point of View podcast, from May 2016.
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March 1, 2017
The Ray Bradbury Challenge: Day 189
Short story: Crazy they Call Me by Zadie Smith, from the New Yorker, February 2017. Recommended.
Poem: The New Colossus by Emma Lazarus, listened to on the Voice Before the Void podcast.
Essay: Remembering the Mandela Effect, listened to on the Skeptoid podcast, from February 2017. Highly Recommended.
What is the Ray Bradbury Challenge?


February 28, 2017
The Ray Bradbury Challenge: Day 188
Short story: Fermi’s Zookeepers by David Gullen, from Nature, February 2017. Recommended.
Poem: Disgraceland by Mary Karr, listened to on the Poem of the Day podcast, from February 2017. Highly Recommended.
Essay: Robots that Eat Pollution by Jonathan Rossiter, listened to on the TEDTalks podcast, from February 2017. Recommended.
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February 27, 2017
The Ray Bradbury Challenge: Day 187
Short story: Run Kiss Daddy by Joyce Carol Oates, from USA Noir (2013) edited by Johnny Temple. Recommended.
Poem: Family Dollar by Hannah Brooks-Motl, listened to on the PoetryNow podcast, from February 2017. Highly Recommended.
Essay: The Parthenon Sculpture: Centaur and Lapith, listened to on the BBC’s A History of the World in 100 Objects, from February 2010. Highly Recommended.
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February 26, 2017
The Ray Bradbury Challenge: Day 186
Short story: London Calling by Philip A. Suggars, from Strange Horizons, February 2017. Highly Recommended.
Poem: Searchers by D. Nurkse, listened to on the Poem of the Day podcast, from February 2017.
Essay: Hitler’s Antarctic Fortress Unmasked, listened to on the Skeptoid podcast, from February 2017. Recommended.
What is the Ray Bradbury Challenge?


February 25, 2017
The Ray Bradbury Challenge: Day 185
Short story: Quiet Please by Aimee Bender, listened to on the Selected Short podcast, from February. Recommended.
Poem: Forecast by Ruth Stone, listened to on the Poem of the Day podcast, from February 2017. Recommended.
Essay: The Spectre of Populism by John Gray, listened to on the BBC’s A Point of View podcast, from February 2017. Highly Recommended.
What is the Ray Bradbury Challenge?


February 24, 2017
The Ray Bradbury Challenge: Day 184
Short story: The Red Bride by Samantha Henderson, from Strange Horizons, January 2017. Recommended.
Poem: Fragmentary Blue by Robert Frost, listened to through Librivox. Highly Recommended.
Essay: How Did Everything Begin by Melvyn Bragg et al, listened to on the BBC’s A History of Ideas podcast, from January 2015. Recommended.
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February 23, 2017
The Ray Bradbury Challenge: Day 183
Short story: The Robbed by Tim W. Boiteau, listened to on the Far Fetched Fables podcast, from January 2017. Highly Recommended.
Poem: A Furnace in my Father’s Voice by Ishion Hutchinson, listened to on the Poem of the Day podcast, from February 2017. Highly Recommended.
Essay: How to Have Better Political Conversations by Robb Willer, listened to on the TEDTalks podcast, from January 2017. Highly Recommended.
What is the Ray Bradbury Challenge?


February 22, 2017
The Ray Bradbury Challenge: Day 182
Short story: The Open Window by Saki, listened to through Librivox.
Poem: When You are Old by W. B. Yeats, listened to on the Poem of the Day podcast, from February 2017. Recommended.
Essay: The Fun of Work – really? by Will Self, listened to on the BBC’s A Point of View podcast, from February 2017. Highly Recommended.
What is the Ray Bradbury Challenge?


February 21, 2017
The Ray Bradbury Challenge: Day 181
Short story: The Rape of Lucrece by F. Scott Fitzgerald, from The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Other Jazz Age Stories. Highly Recommended.
Poem: Two Guardians by Roberto Tejada, listened to on the Poetry Foundation’s Poetry Now podcast, from February 2017. Recommended.
Essay: You and the Atom Bomb by George Orwell, listened to on The Voice Before the Void podcast, from February 2017. Highly Recommended.
What is the Ray Bradbury Challenge?

