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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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Published on March 02, 2017 05:39

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.


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Published on March 01, 2017 00:45

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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Published on February 28, 2017 00:03

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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Published on February 27, 2017 09:28

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.


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Published on February 26, 2017 02:49

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.


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Published on February 25, 2017 00:31

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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Published on February 24, 2017 00:41

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.


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Published on February 23, 2017 12:33

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.


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Published on February 22, 2017 12:26

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.


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Published on February 21, 2017 03:47