podcasts – Fireflies

I’ve had two posts in my head now for so long that the passage of time has changed their meaning quite significantly. The first one was a post about podcasts. It was inspired by Serial, the series that launched a thousand podcasts and that showed that serious investigative journalism and public concentration spans are perhapsContinueContinue reading

Entangled history

There was a great example of entangled history on the latest episode of the History Of Japan podcast. It’s now well into its fifth hour on the Bakumatsu/Meiji Ishin, and things are beginning to hot up. According to the podcast, the end of the Civil War left the U.S. with a large amount of weaponry -ContinueContinue reading “Entangled history “