Shows
2019-02-2503 mina certain PageEpisode 124 - Beehives & the Kibbutza selection from Moshe Safdie's memoir Beyond Habitat
2019-02-2402 min2019-02-2301 mina certain PageEpisode 122 - War is a Racketfrom a pamphlet written by Major General Smedley Butler (1881-1940)
2019-02-2203 min2019-02-2101 min2019-02-2001 mina certain PageEpisode 119 - Zoo Specimen by Jim Cowansci-fi from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 1973
2019-02-1902 min2019-02-1501 mina certain PageEpisode 117 - Grignr vs. the ratA page from Jim Theis' legendary tale, "The Eye of Argon"
2019-02-1407 mina certain PageEpisode 116 - Sense EducationA page from Jeffrey Schrank's Teaching Human Beings: 101 Subversive Activities for the Classroom
2019-02-1303 mina certain PageEpisode 115 - Deciphering Dessertfrom the poster "A Guide to Deciphering Dessert" by Bambi Edlund of edible INK
2019-02-1202 mina certain PageEpisode 114 - Second WarningThe first page of "World Scientists' Warning to Humanity: A Second Notice"
2019-02-1105 mina certain PageEpisode 113 - History of the UniversityA passage from the first chapter of Immanuel Wallerstein's World-Systems Analysis
2019-02-1003 min2019-02-0901 min2019-02-0804 min2019-02-0701 min2019-02-0605 mina certain PageEpisode 108 - A Sense of ProportionA brief passage from Douglas Adam's novel The Restaurant at the End of the Universe.
2019-02-0502 mina certain PageEpisode 107 - The Baloney Detection KitNine steps to better reasoning from Carl Sagan's The Demon-Haunted World
2019-02-0403 min2019-02-0302 mina certain PageEpisode 105 - Questions for ReflectionThe full list is available here: https://itotd.com/articles/2444/the-questionnaires-of-james-lipton-bernard-pivot-and-marcel-proust/
2019-02-0205 mina certain PageEpisode 104 - The Yellow WallpaperThe conclusion to Charlotte Perkins Gilman's classic short story
2019-02-0103 min2019-01-3102 mina certain PageEpisode 102 - The Mysterious BibleA passage from James Hogg's novel The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner
2019-01-3003 mina certain PageEpisode 101 - Demythologizing WhitenessFrom Achille Mbembe's essay "Decolonizing Knowledge and the Question of the Archive." https://tinyurl.com/y793c57m
2019-01-2904 min2019-01-2803 mina certain PageEpisode 99 - The Meanings of Prehistoric ArtFrom "What the caves are trying to tell us" by Sam Kriss. https://tinyurl.com/y6w22u9g
2019-01-2705 min2019-01-2601 mina certain PageEpisode 98 - The Anatomy of MelancholyA brief passage from the classic and prodigious work by Robert Burton
2019-01-2604 mina certain PageEpisode 96 - The Oldest Love Poem"The Love Song of Shu-Sin," translated from the cuneiform by Samuel Noah Kramer
2019-01-2502 min2019-01-2402 mina certain PageEpisode 94 - The Reality of the UnseenFrom William James' The Varieties of Religious Experience
2019-01-2305 mina certain PageEpisode 93 - The Tay Bridge DisasterSome name this 1880 poem by William McGonagall as the worst verse in the English language.
2019-01-2203 min2019-01-2108 min2019-01-2003 min2019-01-1804 mina certain PageEpisode 89 - Roots of BoneShirt fiction from Uel Aramcheck. More if Uel's work can be found here: http://www.northofreality.com/
2019-01-1702 min2019-01-1602 min2019-01-1502 mina certain PageEpisode 86 - Chaldea and AmazoniaFrom The Travels of Sir John Mandeville, circa 1357-1371
2019-01-0903 min2019-01-0802 min2019-01-0703 min2019-01-0402 mina certain PageEpisode 82 - The Tao of Isabella MearsThe opening of Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching as rendered into English by Isabella Mears.
2019-01-0301 mina certain PageEpisode 81 - Robert Anton Wilson on beliefFrom the 1986 preface to Cosmic Trigger I: Final Secret of the Illuminati
2019-01-0203 mina certain PageEpisode 80 - To Dream You Are King of EnglandFrom the writings of surrealist Remedios Varo
2018-12-2902 min2018-12-2801 min2018-12-2702 min2018-12-2608 min2018-12-2501 min2018-12-2401 mina certain PageEpisode 74 - Burial Practices of the Ancient & BarbaricFrom Sir Thomas Browne's Hydriotaphia
2018-12-2303 mina certain PageEpisode 73 - The "I" of ScienceFrom Shiv Visvanathan's essay "Between Cosmology and System: The Heuristics of a Dissenting Imagination."
2018-12-2203 min2018-12-2006 min2018-12-1903 min2018-12-1801 mina certain PageEpisode 68 - BibliopsychologyA page from the library theory of Russian educator Nicholas Rubakin
2018-12-1703 min2018-12-1501 min2018-12-1404 min2018-12-0901 mina certain PageEpisode 64 - Ignorance & WantA key passage in Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol oft omitted from screen adaptations.
2018-12-0803 mina certain PageEpisode 63 - Before there were white peopleFrom the opening chapter of Nell Irvin Painter's The History of White People, which is turning out to really be a history of the concept of whiteness, I think.
2018-12-0702 mina certain PageEpisode 62 - Ozymandias Times TwoPercy Bysshe Shelley's famous sonnet and the alternate version by his friend Horace Smith
2018-12-0602 min2018-12-0504 mina certain PageEpisode 60 - Teufelsdröckh in loveFrom chapter 5 of Thomas Carlyle's amazing 1836 novel Sartor Resartus
2018-12-0402 mina certain PageEpisode 59 - on being raised on fairy tales in which you are the monsterPoem by a.m.h. Thanks to my good friend Sarkos for sharing it with me.
2018-12-0301 mina certain PageEpisode 58 - The Chaos by Gerard Nolst TrenitéFollow along at http://ncf.idallen.com/english.html to get the most out of my struggles with my native tongue. Yikes!
2018-11-2918 min2018-11-2801 mina certain PageEpisode 56 - An Old Literary SinnerFrom volume 1 of Benjamin Disraeli's Curiosities of Literature
2018-11-2705 mina certain PageEpisode 55 - Culture of the MindFrom the second book of Francis Bacon's Advancement of Learning
2018-11-2003 mina certain PageEpisode 54 - Strabo on the BritishThe ancient geographer's report on the barbarians inhabiting a distant island.
2018-11-1702 min2018-11-1702 min2018-11-1402 mina certain PageEpisode 51 - The Two New SciencesThe opening of a classic work on mechanics by Galileo Galilei.
2018-10-3104 min2018-10-2603 min2018-10-2403 mina certain PageEpisode 48 - Creative ReadingA passage from Ron Padgett's Creative Reading: What It Is, How to Do It, and Why
2018-10-2303 mina certain PageEpisode 47 - Wrestling as BurlesqueThe opening to Aubrey Sitterson's essay Professional Wrestling: Burlesque for Boys, found in Nathan D. Paoletta's World Wide Wrestling: The Roleplaying Game.
2018-10-2303 mina certain PageEpisode 46 - The Anti-Masonic PartyThe opening to chapter V of John C. Palmer's The Morgan Affair and Anti-Masonry, found in Volume II of the Little Masonic Library.
2018-10-2103 mina certain PageEpisode 45 - The Mind-Stuff TheoryThe first page of chapter 6 of The Principles of Psychology by William James.
2018-10-1903 mina certain PageEpisode 44 - Planet of the Killer ApesFrom the introductory chapter to Colin Wilson's The Mammoth Book of True Crime 2
2018-10-1804 min2018-10-1704 min2018-10-1602 min2018-10-1503 mina certain PageEpisode 40 - ShamelaFrom Henry Fielding's satire of Samuel Richardson's novel Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded
2018-10-1402 mina certain PageEpisode 39 - If on a winter's night a travelerA page from Italo Calvino's classic postmodernist novel.
2018-10-1302 min2018-10-1203 min2018-10-1103 mina certain PageEpisode 36 - DarknessAn apocalyptic poem by Lord Byron, inspired by the Year Without A Summer
2018-10-1004 mina certain PageEpisode 35 - The Sumerians Knew How to PartyFrom Cory O'Brien's irreverent retelling of world mythology, Zeus Grants Stupid Wishes
2018-10-0902 mina certain PageEpisode 34 - What It IsFrom cartoonist Lynda Barry's amazing work What It Is. You really need to see a copy to appreciate the fullness of this passage.
2018-10-0801 mina certain PageEpisode 33 - The Wizardfrom Jack Prelutsky's collection Nightmares: Poems to Trouble Your Sleep
2018-10-0703 min2018-10-0604 mina certain PageEpisode 31 - The Traditionary BalladTranslated out of the Manx, the first 12 stanzas of the verse history of the Isle of Man, originally composed sometime between 1490 and 1530 AD.
2018-10-0503 mina certain PageEpisode 30 - in defense of the French RevolutionFrom the Letters Written in France of Helen Maria Williams (1759-1827)
2018-10-0403 min2018-10-0303 min2018-10-0102 min2018-09-3002 mina certain PageEpisode 26 - On FootnotesFrom Anglo-French historian and humorist Hilaire Belloc's essay collection simply titled On.
2018-09-2902 mina certain PageEpisode 25 - Guan JuAn English rendition of one of the most famous ancient Chinese poems
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