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‘Afternoon Shift’ #165: The future of facts
On Tuesday’s show we consider the fourth estate, the gay and straight brain, the new sculptures on Lake Shore Drive and the master of made-up facts, John Hodgman.
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Great #afternoonshift today on @WBEZ: The future of news, the future of public art and the future of @hodgman. http://bit.ly/SXsJ1xJustinKaufmann
Howwill the news industry change over the next decade as we become an increasinglysocial media driven, paperless, and global society? We ponder citizenjournalism, digital media and the future of news as we know it.
Heading to @WBEZ to do #AfternoonShift with Rick Kogan (show starts at 2). Link to audio later for #medill tweeps & othersOwen Youngman
NeuroscientistSimon LeVay talks about his research into the gay and straight brain.His most recent book is: Gay, Straight, and the Reason Why: TheScience of Sexual Orientation.
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TracyBaim of Windy City Media Group and Andrew Huff of Gapers Blockjoin us to toss around the 3 @ 3 news football.
I’ll be on @WBEZ’s Afternoon Shift today at 3pm. Tune in! http://wbez.orgAndrew Huff
what do you of the sculpture along chicago’s lakefront? here’s a sample then join #afternoonshift on @wbez for more! http://pic.twitter.com/ozjBjuYQalison cuddy
Actor,author, humorist, humor editor of NYT Mag, contributor to The Daily Show andThis American Life. Doesn’t get much hipper than that, which is why, ofcourse, he lives in Brooklyn. His most recent book That Is All isout in paperback, and he’ll be appearing at Northwestern in Evanston thisweekend as part of the Chicago Humanities Festival.
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A photo I took of John Hodgman at Coolidge Corner Theatre in Brookline, Massachusetts, circa 1988-9.samarov