![]() ![]() This week, two cases headed to the Supreme Court that could change the internet as we know it. The Artifact and Living by Michael AndrewsCellar Door by Michael AndrewsBoy Moves the Sun by Michael AndrewsExit Music (For A Film) by Brad Mehldau TrioEye Surgery by Thomas NewmanHammer of Los by John Zorn Michael Bang Petersen political science professor at Aarhus University, on the difference (or lack thereof) between on and offline behaviors, and how social media might not be affecting us in the ways we think. Listen. Josh Owens ], a former InfoWars employee, on what can be done to help people who have become consumed by conspiracy theories. Elizabeth Williamson features writer for The New York Times, on the Sandy Hook defamation trials against Alex Jones and what the trials taught us about the spread of misinformation. Plus, does social media really turn nice people into trolls?ġ. On this week’s On the Media, a former Alex Jones staffer struggles with the damage his participation wrought. 5 (Phillip Glass) - Kronos QuartetDisfarmer - Bill FrisellLost, Night - Bill FrisellIn the Bath - Randy NewmanThe De Lessup’s Dance - Gavin WrightBreakaway - Regina CarterĪ jury recently ordered Alex Jones to pay nearly one billion dollars to the families of the victims of the Sandy Hook shooting. Music in this Week's Show:Slim Jenkins Place - Booker T and the MGsEye Surgery- Thomas NewmanString Quartet No. and set the standards Americans still see today. Listen.ģ. Sabrina at the University of California, Irvine, on how European attitudes about fat dramatically changed in the 18th century. Listen.Ģ. Katherine Flegal epidemiologist and former senior scientist at the Centers For Disease Control, on our flawed understanding of the data around weight and death, and Katie Lebesco focusing on food, pop culture, and fat activism, on why the "obesity epidemic" is a moral panic hiding behind a thin veil of scientific language. ![]() Yoni Associate Professor of Family Medicine at University of Ottawa, on what we do and don't know about the relation of weight and the severity of a Covid infection. Including how sugar and the slave trade laid the groundwork for American beauty standards.ġ. Dr. But what if the greater risk is poor medical treatment for fat people? This week, On the Media dives into the fictions, feelings, and fraught history of fat. Early in the pandemic, weight was named a risk factor for severe covid-19.
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