Recorded on MiLo’s birthday, we talk about what has changed over the decades and what, perhaps oddly, has not.
Mentioned in this episode
1969, the year MiLo was born. Also the Apollo 11 moon landing, and subject of the Bryan Adams hit song (though not the actual “Summer of Love,” which was 1967)
Also 1968. There are many major events we associate with 1968, but the 1968 Submarine disappearances comprise a strange and lesser-known series of happenings from that year.
Tilt-shift: “the use of camera movements that change the orientation or position of the lens with respect to the film or image sensor on cameras”
Ken Burns: Vietnam: Ten-part series covering the early days of US involvement through the fall of Saigon.
Kali Yuga: “…in Hinduism, is the fourth, shortest, and worst of the four yugas (world ages) in a Yuga cycle... It is believed to be the present age, which is full of conflict and sin.” (Wikipedia)
Event horizon: “In astrophysics, an event horizon is a boundary beyond which events cannot affect an outside observer… Any object approaching the horizon from the observer's side appears to slow down, never quite crossing the horizon.”
Moore’s Law: “…the observation that the number of transistors in an integrated circuit (IC) doubles about every two years.”
Wake Up! (album by John Legend and The Roots) vs the films Don’t Look Up and Idiocracy as examples of art with a message.
Voyager space probe containing a golden record with contents selected by Carl Sagan, and other Knowledge Ark projects designed to preserve knowledge for future generations.
Dear America: You are waking up, as Germany once did, to the awareness that 1/3 of your people would kill another 1/3, while 1/3 watches. — viral quote wrongly attributed to German film director Werner Herzog.
Being There and its protagonist Chance the gardener (Chauncey Gardiner) as a parallel to Trump.
Louis C.K. “Everything’s amazing and nobody is happy.”
